Previous issues
Previous issues of 'Wellcome History' are available below.
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Summer 2012 - issue 50 [PDF 753KB], looking at public engagement projects at Hampton Court Palace.
Spring 2012 - issue 49 [PDF 1.2 MB], looking at Thomas Henry Huxley's role in promoting evolutionary theory, plus research at Queen Mary, University of London.
Winter 2011 - issue 48 [PDF 4.5MB], looking at medical history in Japan, Luigi Sacco and early smallpox vaccination, and the rhetorics of pain.
Summer 2011 - issue 47 [PDF 3MB], looking at forensic murder investigation in England, plus research at the University of York and the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation.
Spring 2011 - issue 46 [PDF 1.75MB], looking at the WHO's monkeypox programme and Vivian Nutton's career.
Winter 2010 - issue 45 [PDF 936KB], looking at the eradication of smallpox and research at Oxford Brookes University.
Summer 2010 - issue 44 [PDF 1.7MB], looking at Chagas' disease in Brazil and research at Glasgow's Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare.
Spring 2010 - issue 43 [PDF 916KB], looking at how leishmaniasis has been fought in post-independence India and how it gradually came to be understood in Asia and north Africa.
Winter 2009 - issue 42 [PDF 1.1MB], looking at John William Ballantyne's work on fetal malformation and research at the University of Cambridge.
Summer 2009 - issue 41 [PDF 884KB], looking at physicians in British East Africa and research at the University of Exeter
Spring 2009 - issue 40 [PDF 732KB], looking at infant mortality in Uruguay and research at the University of Oxford.
Winter 2008 - issue 39 [PDF 964 KB], looking at face transplantation and research at the University of Manchester.
Summer 2008 - issue 38 [PDF 716KB], looking at Africa: the health of trafficked children, sleeping sickness, immunisation, haemorrhagic fevers and healing traditions.
Spring 2008 - issue 37 [PDF 1MB], looking at Florence Nightingale and research at University College London.
Winter 2007 - issue 36 [PDF 286KB], looking at the politics and culture of medicine in Meiji Japan.
Summer 2007 - issue 35 [PDF 324 KB], looking at the 1896 plague outbreak in Bombay and research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Spring 2007 - issue 34 [PDF 380KB], looking at Swami Laxmi Ram's ayurvedic pharmacy.
Winter 2006 - issue 33 [PDF 1.7MB], looking at encounters between white doctors and black mothers in pre-Civil War USA.
Summer 2006 - issue 32 [PDF 548KB], looking at Hans Selye and the biology of stress.
Spring 2006 - issue 31 [PDF 792KB], looking at AIDS in Britain and its portrayal in the media.
Winter 2005 - issue 30 [PDF 532KB], looking at anti-vaccination campaigns in 19th-century Canada.
Summer 2005 - issue 29 [PDF 1MB], looking at the impact of the 1832 Anatomy Act in England.
Spring 2005 - issue 28 [PDF 952KB], looking at midwifery in colonial India and the career of Bill Bynum.
Winter 2004 - issue 27 [PDF 1.1MB], looking at Kunde Hospital in Nepal, set up by Sir Edmund Hillary.
Summer 2004 - issue 26 [1MB], looking at migration, borders and public health.
Spring 2004 - issue 25 [1.3MB], looking at homeopathy at the turn of the 20th century.
October 2003 - issue 24 [1.6MB], looking at occupational health and safety in Singapore.
June 2003 - issue 23 [PDF 1.3MB], looking at visceral leishmaniasis, the 'Assam fever'.
February 2003 - issue 22 [PDF 652KB], looking at town planning and public health in 18th- and 19th-century Calcutta.
October 2002 - issue 21 [PDF 365KB], looking at the politics of vaccination during the Sheffield smallpox outbreak of 1926-27.
June 2002 - issue 20 [PDF 688KB], looking at the life and work of Roy Porter, and a Nazi medical mission to Tibet.
February 2002 - issue 19 [PDF 449KB], looking at pneumoconiosis and silicosis in coal miners and the Mental Deficiency Acts 1913-48.
November 2001 - issue 18 [PDF 408KB], looking at the Institute for the Study of Genetics, Biorisks and Society at the University of Nottingham.
July 2001 - issue 17 [PDF 864KB], looking at the Wellcome Library's Medical Archives and Manuscripts Survey.
March 2001 - issue 16 [PDF 2.7MB], looking at the Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Birmingham Medical School.
November 2000 - issue 15 [PDF 474KB], looking at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL.
June 2000 - issue 14 [PDF 2MB], looking at the Institute for the History of Medicine at the Robert Bosch Foundation.
February 2000 - issue 13 [no PDF available]
November 1999 - issue 12 [PDF 1.49MB], looking at history of medicine research in Wales.
August 1999 - issue 11 [PDF 543KB], looking at history of medicine research in China.
April 1999 - issue 10 [PDF 684KB], looking at medieval medicine and religion, and 16th-century gynaecology.
February 1999 - issue 9 [PDF 684KB], looking at early psychiatry in India.
1996-98 - issues 1-8 [no PDFs available]