Home| StoriesResearch notesSeriesArticleChildren in burns prevention campaignsWhose responsibility is it to prevent accidental burns and scalds in the home? Shane Ewen’s research shows that it’s everyone’s concern.‘Jessy’, a film about cerebral palsyHow the 1950s British film industry portrayed this disease.ArticleA reflection on art in a mental hospitalArtist Beth Hopkins explains how she used her experience of researching the Adamson Collection to create an embroidered wall hanging.The rise and fall of a medical mesmeristUncover the fascinating story of the doctor who popularised hypnotism as a medical technique, and could name Dickens among his famous friends.ArticleUncovering experiences of dementiaFocusing on three 19th-century women’s case notes, Millie van der Byl Williams explores how our definition of dementia has changed.Doctors and the English seasideFashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.How the Peckham Experiment inspired my fictionFind out how an unruly mass of archive material from a 1930s radical health centre has inspired brand new writing.
