Discover all of the exhibitions, events and more on offer at Wellcome Collection, a free museum and library exploring health and human experience.

Watercolour painting by A.O. Lamplough depicting the banks of the Nile in Egypt, showcasing serene landscapes and artistic beauty.

History is dominated by A-list deaths: queens beheaded, archdukes assassinated. But what about everyone else? How did ordinary people depart this life and grieve for loved ones, and which of the old ...

Album of photographs of No. 5 General Hospital at Rouen and No. 40 Field Ambulance, during the First World War RAMC/738/8 ...

A dissertation on the influence of the passions upon disorders of the body / by William Falconer, M.D. F.R.S. and corresponding member of the Medical Society of London. Being the essay to which the ...

Posters by artists who turned their art into activism to support their communities and raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s.

Laura Grace Simpkins attempts to untangle some uncomfortable truths about the social and environmental costs of making her medication.

In 1950, an American journalist popularised the term ‘brainwashing’, arguing that a new amalgam of technology, medicine and ideology was allowing an onslaught on people’s minds. In this abridged ...

A 19th-century campaigner who condemned the practice of keeping a dead person at home before the funeral started a gradual trend for outsourcing the preparation and storage of a body. But as a ...

Ours is the age of contagious anxiety. We feel overwhelmed by the events around us, by injustice, by suffering, by an endless feeling of crisis. So how can we nurture the parts of ourselves that hope, ...

Nymphomania has traditionally been defined as an increased and therefore disturbing sexual drive. It was thought of as a serious medical condition particularly affecting women, who were often given ...

Like everyone, sex workers sometimes need medical or mental health support. But shame and stigma seriously affect attitudes and access.