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Issues of identity and disclosure in donor conception
Shirley Brailey was 12 years old when she found out she was donor conceived. Her father, who she had thought was her biological parent had Huntington’s disease, and her parents needed to let her know...
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Wellcome Film of the Month: Cat’s got the measles and the measles have got YOU!
“Cat’s got the Measles and the Measles have got YOU! This playground rhyme features in our film of the month,Protect your child against measles 1980, a Health Education Authority film aimed at...
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Around the world in 80 days – Part 5: Thailand
Over the course of four months, Barry Gibb visited our major overseas programmes in Africa and Asia to make a film about Wellcome Collection’s Art and Global Health project. In the latest of his diary...
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How do you really feel about biomedical science?
One of the infographics from the Wellcome Trust Monitor. See more at http://wellc.me/19ASRrU The Wellcome Trust Monitor explores public attitudes about biomedical science. Now in its second...
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Around the world in 80 days – Part 7: South Africa
Zwelethu absorbs the sight of a massive shanty town Over the course of four months, Barry Gibb visited our major overseas programmes in Africa and Asia to make a film about Wellcome Collection’s Art in...
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Choosing tomorrow’s children: the ethics of selective reproduction
By Stephen Wilkinson, Lancaster University Biomedical science is capable of giving people more choice than ever before about what their future children will be like. Such possibilities raise important...
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Of English bloodhounds and indigenous medicine
Delegates at iCHSTM 2013 Along with the sunshine, July brought another extraordinary event to the city of Manchester – the 24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology & Medicine...
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Fighting fit: How dieticians tested if Britain would be starved into defeat
Congratulations to Laura Dawes, whose entry to the Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize was highly commended by the judges and published on the Guardian Science Blog today. Her piece tells of a crucial...
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What has art ever done for science?
“Art has contributed zero to science, historically,” said developmental biologist Lewis Wolpert on Radio 4 some time ago. This sounds like a sweeping generalisation – particularly considering he was in...
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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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