Museums and libraries, such as Wellcome Collection, create structures for selecting and organising the objects that enter their collections. Zines are unwieldy, DIY publications that resist ...

Articles and cuttings re psychiatry and neurology, collected by Stephen MacKeith, OBE, MRCS, LRCP, Medical Superintendant and Specialist in Psychiatry at Napsbury, formerly Adviser in Psychiatry, ...

Nine people with ME reveal their unremitting struggles as they negotiate life with their illness, including their battles to be believed, diagnosed and supported.

This evolving display features a series of stories about the entangled global histories, vibrant traditions, and new innovations connected to the kola nut.

While recent research shows art in hospitals plays an active role in patients’ healing, its presence in medical buildings is nothing new. Art historian Anne Wallentine discusses why icons, frescoes, ...

Dissecting the brain after death not only helps confirm a diagnosis, but it can also teach us so much more about the symptoms and causes of brain diseases and how to treat them.

Posters by artists who turned their art into activism to support their communities and raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s.

A 19th-century campaigner who condemned the practice of keeping a dead person at home before the funeral started a gradual trend for outsourcing the preparation and storage of a body. But as a ...

In the 1900s, alcohol-addicted East Enders were sent to one of England’s first rehab centres, on Osea Island in the Blackwater estuary, where manual work and abstinence was hoped to effect a cure.

Join Ben Gazur as he explores the origins, relics and power of Christian martyrs, and their continuing relevance for Catholics in the 21st century.

The Migraine Art Competition ran for seven years in the 1980s and resulted in over 500 unique and striking works of art that represent what it means to live with migraine.

The sanatorium treatment for tuberculosis was a curious combination of sunshine, fresh air, exercise and constant surveillance.