Our new exhibition explores experiences and perceptions of ageing, from adolescence to older age, and asks how societies can adapt to ensure everyone ages better.

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Chapter originally reprinted from: The New Orleans medical and surgical journal, May 1851, p. 691-715.

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Reprinted from volume one of 'The Leishmaniases in biology and medicine' edited by W. Peters and R. Killick-Kendrick. Published in London and Orlando by the Academic Press in 1987 ...

Maternal-infant bonding : the impact of early separation or loss on family development / Marshall H. Klaus, John H. Kennell.

From animal-bladder skin to houndstooth check and sequins, face masks have undergone many revolutions in design over the centuries. Writer Lizzie Enfield traces their history in pictures.

In the five centuries since Europeans were introduced to tobacco, smoking has generated considerable controversy. This gallery tracks shifting views on smoking and health, from life-saving stimulant ...

We think of assistive technology as something modern, and that people with mobility issues in the past were limited to their locality or confined within their homes. But there are clues in the ...

In 1950, an American journalist popularised the term ‘brainwashing’, arguing that a new amalgam of technology, medicine and ideology was allowing an onslaught on people’s minds. In this abridged ...

Approximately halfway through my master’s I stopped being able to cope. It might have been because I was being kept awake by second-year student parties until five in the morning, or because I ...

How do you avoid catching the plague? Smoke constantly. Carry a sponge soaked in vinegar. Hang oranges studded with cloves around your house. This was the best medical advice available circa 1665, as ...