Tag: addiction

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

To accompany Wellcome Collection’s High Society exhibition, this week’s free Wellcome Library Insight session – on Thursday 24th February – highlights some of the dealers and dopers, addicts and apothecaries, who reside in our collections. Discover too, how our understanding… Continue reading

People take pictures of each other, And the moment to last them for ever, Of the time when they mattered to someone. ‘People take pictures of each other’ by Ray Davies Picture the scene: A smiling bride and groom in… Continue reading

The latest edition of Big Picture, the Wellcome Trust resource for teachers and students, has just been published. It looks at the topic of ‘Addiction’: analysing the different forms addiction can take and the science used to understand it. There’s… Continue reading

What did it mean to suffer mental health problems in the past? How was madness understood and how were patients treated? Drawing on the rich holdings both in the Library and Wellcome Collection, this short course looks at the history… Continue reading

This graph (Wellcome Library no. 689465i) is one of the latest works to enter the Wellcome Library catalogue. Unexciting to look at, perhaps, despite its outlandish subject. It combines two graphs in one: the top half shows new admissions of… Continue reading

Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. For some little… Continue reading