Myalgic encephalomyelitis, known as ME, as well as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), is a doubly invisible illness. Not only are the symptoms hard to see, but the disease also attracts little ...

Building upon her photo story ‘No you’re not – a portrait of autistic women’, women from minoritised communities talk to photographer Rosie Barnes about their experiences of being autistic in a world ...

All the while, I was in Scotland, worrying. The pandemic meant the Canadian borders were closed to incoming flights from the UK. Tearful calls to the Canadian Consulate were made – in theory, when the ...

Early modern hospitals in Europe predominantly served people from poorer communities, as wealthy people could afford to be nursed at home. Manuscript and woodcut illustrations from the 16th century ...

In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment sparked radical new conceptions of science, biology and medicine in Europe, bringing different frameworks to how hospitals ...

In the mid-19th century, behavioural neurologists made important discoveries just by looking at the surface of the brain. Paul Broca, the best known of them, treated two stroke patients who had lost ...

The translation of the caption on this poster from the Swiss AIDS Foundation is “Excluded because of AIDS? Excluded!”. By the 1990s it was becoming clear that everyone was vulnerable to the HIV virus, ...

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 the diet. Elsewhere in the world, humans first started ...

The early Christian Church was built on the bodies of martyrs. Sometimes this was by literally constructing places of worship on the site of a martyrdom, but in addition, tales of the deaths of those ...

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 ...

At the heart of this approach was the belief that foul air caused tuberculosis. Despite Robert Koch’s discovery of the TB germ, Mycobacterium tuberculosis in 1882, the foul-air theory continued to ...

Beddoes publicly announced the discovery of an entirely “new pleasure” in nitrous oxide gas at the Pneumatic Institute. Beddoes, who had married Anna, the sister of novelist Maria Edgeworth in 1794, ...