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Why should I care about medical humanities?
What happens if you put a medical historian and a literary scholar on a train together? In this case, you get a book about the way medicine, health and the arts can work together. Victoria Bates is a...
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I’m exhausted, is something wrong with me?
A recent conference held at the University of Kent, funded by a Wellcome Trust medical humanities small grant explored the different medical, psychiatric, and social narratives on the origins and cures...
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Why every hospital should have a garden
Hospitals aim to treat patients and help them get better as soon as possible, but what if there were something other than medical supervision and expertise that could speed up the healing process?...
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First Wellcome Trust open access book looks at history of fungal disease
Earlier this year, the Wellcome Trust extended its open access policy to include monographs and scholarly publications, and today our first open access monograph is published, a history of fungal...
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Shedding light on this history of phototherapy
With the long, dark days of winter upon us, sunlight seems like a distant dream – but Wellcome Trust Research Fellow Dr Tania Woloshyn is absorbed with light. Researching the history of light therapy,...
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Wellcome Trust provides funds for Richard III’s genome to be sequenced
When archaeologists announced they had unearthed the mortal remains of King Richard III last year, the news was met with much excitement. This week, the Wellcome Trust announced it is helping to fund...
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Research Spotlight: Prof Daniel Pick
Professor Daniel Pick holds a senior investigator award from the Wellcome Trust and is professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is also a qualified psychoanalyst and Fellow of...
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From Torture to Treatment: One Man’s Fight to Revolutionise Mental Health...
Wellcome Trust funded researcher Professor John Foot spent two years exploring the history of revolutionary psychiatrist Franco Basaglia. Basaglia’s views on the treatment of psychiatric patients...
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Jonathan Glazer announced as new Screenwriting Fellow
Wellcome Trust Headquarters was transformed into a hive of showbiz activity this evening as the latest recipient of Wellcome Trust/BFI Screenwriting Fellowship, run in association with Film4, was...
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Global Health Histories Explores Antimicrobial Resistance and 20th Century...
Earlier this year a report from the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned that resistance to common antimicrobial drugs has reached alarming levels, with fewer and fewer effective treatment options...
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How the Wellcome Trust Spends its Money
The most recent Wellcome Trust annual report showed healthy returns on our investment portfolio, which should allow us to spend in excess of £4 billion in the period 2014-2019. But where do we spend...
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New types of evidence for measuring health in the 21st century
Covering 53 member states and a population of 900 million people, the European Health Report 2015 is a landmark publication of the World Health Organisation’s Regional Office for Europe (WHO Europe)....
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Researcher Spotlight: Dr Angela Cassidy
Dr Angela Cassidy is a contemporary historian of science and medicine, and Wellcome Research Fellow at the Department of History, King’s College London. Her work, which focuses on bovine tuberculosis...
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Researcher Spotlight: Louise Powell
Louise Powell is doing an MA in Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies with a focus on the way twins are represented 17th century literature. She recently got a Wellcome Trust bursary for...
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Researcher Spotlight: Dr Martyn Pickersgill
Dr Martyn Pickersgill is a Wellcome Trust Reader in Social Studies of Biomedicine at the University of Edinburgh. His work looks at the social, legal and ethical dimensions of biomedicine and health...
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