show credit information for image 'Disability, desire, and pleasure unlocked' Disability, desire, and pleasure unlocked. © Darren Black for Wellcome Collection. In ...

Living with increased pain and reduced functional abilities because of the advancement of an incurable cancer, and because she lived in Canada, where it is legal, Michelle Elliot’s mum was able to ...

While recent research shows art in hospitals plays an active role in patients’ healing, its presence in medical buildings is nothing new. Art historian Anne Wallentine discusses why icons, frescoes, ...

Frum especially aimed this barb at those “conservative, evangelical and rural Americans” who, he contended, took vaccine resistance as a pledge of allegiance to Donald Trump. Whatever the truth of ...

show credit information for image 'Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London. Photo: Benjamin Gilbert' For a neuroscientist, there are few things as awe-inspiring as holding a human brain.

Many artists in the 1980s and 1990s turned their art into activism to raise awareness of the emerging AIDS epidemic. These public health posters from around the world show how they creatively ...

Just as cultures transform milk, so milk (re)shapes cultures. Dairy consumption in India can be traced as far back as the Indus Valley Civilisation (3300–1300 BCE), where it was an essential part of ...

show credit information for image 'A covered corpse lying on a bed. Etching by Ch. Chaplin after Louis-Henri Deschamps.' When terrible winter storms lashed the East Coast of America in December 2022, ...

On a visit to Iran in the summer of 2009, my aunts convinced my mother to call a clairvoyant to the house to break the curse that afflicted me. Over weeks of amber black tea and mint-and-feta ...

The British Migraine Association ran a series of migraine art competitions in the 1980s with the intention to share people’s varied experiences of migraine. In the seven years that the competition ran ...

In the early 20th century, a new form of treatment for tuburculosis emerged in Europe and North America. Sanatoriums were a hybrid between a hospital and a resort, built to maximise patients’ exposure ...