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Thirst is a universal human experience shared with most living beings. With only 3% of the water on Earth being freshwater, our land thirsts too. 'Thirst: In Search of Freshwater' explores humanity’s ...

We want everyone to feel included in all that Wellcome Collection has to offer. Find out how we make our building, services and programme as accessible and inclusive as possible. We welcome group ...

La pensée de l'Asie et l'astrobiologie : les origines des sciences et des religions supérieures, l'astrologie chaldéenne, l'état chinois et les moralistes chinois, les philosophies indiennes, la ...

Five parts of an ongoing series (thirteen programmes currently available) in which distinguished senior Anglo-American historians are interviewed by younger colleagues working in the same fields. (2) ...

Explore the profound impact of physical work on health and the body at our new major exhibition. ‘Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights’ delves into the stories of underrepresented workers and their ...

The Eugenics Society was founded, under the name Eugenics Education Society, in 1907, to promote public awareness of eugenic problems, i.e. the existence of hereditary qualities both positive and ...

The architecture of purpose-built sanatoriums enabled doctors and nurses to monitor patients more closely – the transparent, open-air designs normalised a disciplinarian regime of surveillance, which ...

This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.) This material ...

'1880 THAT' is a new exhibition, which explores sign language and the right to communicate. It brings together new and recent work by the artists Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader. The exhibition ...

Credit: A dissertation on the influence of the passions upon disorders of the body / by William Falconer, M.D. F.R.S. and corresponding member of the Medical Society of London. Being the essay to ...

Lakshmana Sarma, K., 1879-1965. Microfilm. Madras : Roja Muthiah Research Library ; London : Available from Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1999. On 1 microfilm reel with other items ; ...