Medicine & Disease

Liane Aukin looks at the private life of Florence Nightingale, and at how her strained relationship with her mother shaped her destiny.

Gilbert Shama looks at the German research into penicillin during the Second World War.

Andrew Mendelsohn outlines the attractions of a fast-growing an popular field of study.

Jonathan Hughes looks at the significance, in alchemical terms, of this reign, and what the King himself made of alchemical prophecy.

Paul Brassley puts MAFF's policy towards Foot and Mouth Disease into historical perspective.

Roy Porter opens our new series on Picturing History, based on a series of lectures organised in conjunction with Reaktion Books, and shows how 18th-century images of the medical profession flow over into the work of political caricaturists.

Elaine Murphy looks at the two families who dominated the private provision of care for the insane in London in the early 19th century.

Derrick Baxby looks at the history of the smallpox vaccination, how it was opposed by many, and how the disease was finally eradicated.

Alex Werner previews a new exhibition on skeletons at the Museum of London.