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Invisible women? The Scientists people don’t see
The George Hay Lecture is given every year at the British National Science Fiction Convention. The lecture is given by a working scientist or exponent of science, on the subject of current work in his or her field. This year’s… Continue reading
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Damaging the Body: Changing Models of Alcohol Harm
The second seminar in the series Damaging the Body: Physical Harm and the Self, 1850 – 2010, will take place in the Wellcome Library this Friday evening. Details: Friday 20 April, 6pm Dr James Nicholls (Bath Spa University) It All Adds… Continue reading
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Wellcome Library Masterclass: Interpreting Caricature
At this new Wellcome Library event, attendees will be introduced to items from our collections, interpreted by acknowledged experts. On the 27th April (2.30pm-4pm), our speakers will select a number of works from the Wellcome Library’s collections on the… Continue reading
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Item of the Month, March 2012: ‘How the Department of Health of the city of New York is fighting tuberculosis’
To mark World TB Day 2012, we’re travelling back to the United States at the turn of the 20th century to look at tuberculosis prevention in New York. In 1882 Robert Koch announced his discovery of the tuberculosis bacillus, formally… Continue reading
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New seminar series: Damaging the Body
We are pleased to announce the details of a new academic seminar series, Damaging the Body: Physical Harm and the Self, 1850 – 2010, to be held at the Wellcome Library and organised by the UCL Centre for the History… Continue reading
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Saving Oxford’s Medicine
Launched last year, Saving Oxford Medicine is an initiative from our friends at the Bodleian Library to survey, catalogue and promote the archives of past and present members of the Medical Sciences Division of Oxford University. You can check out… Continue reading
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Taking a bite out of Francis Crick
On Friday 16 March (1.10pm-1.55pm), Wellcome Library Fellow Dr Christine Aircardi, will be giving a free Bite-Sized Lunchtime lecture at University College London. Christine will talk about her current research, in a lecture entitled: “The life of Francis Crick: a… Continue reading
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Online resource: Journal of the American Medical Association – all back issues now available
The Library is delighted to announce that we recently purchased access to the complete back files of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), right back to the first issue. Published continuously since July 1883, JAMA is an international,… Continue reading
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Conservation In Action: Folios from the The Shahnama
Conservator Amy Junker Heslip talks us through the conservation treatment she undertook on the Wellcome Library’s folios of the Shahnama The Wellcome Library holds 20, highly illustrated, loose folios from The Shahnama or “Book of Kings”. The Shahnama is the… Continue reading
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Wellcome Library Insight – Doctors and Midwifery
This Thursday (8th March) at 3pm our next Wellcome Library Insight focuses on the theme of Doctors and Midwifery. With the current home birth rate in the UK at a mere 2.5 per cent, this session will look at… Continue reading