Discover all of the exhibitions, events and more on offer at Wellcome Collection, a free museum and library exploring health and human experience.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Do I need library membership? Anyone over the age of 18 can visit the library and use the materials on the shelves. You only have to join the library if you need to order materials from the library ...

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 ...

Find books, manuscripts, paintings, illustrations, photos and unpublished archives about Snell, Simeon, 1851-1909, many of them with free online access.

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 ...

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 ; ...

‘Genetic Automata’ is an ongoing body of video works by artists Larry Achiampong and David Blandy exploring race and identity in an age of avatars, videogames and DNA ancestry. The four films in the ...

<p>Among the topics discussed in this text are: fungi classification and nomenclature; germination and vegetative growth; removing fungal structures from heritage objects; fungi species related to ...

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 ...