Medical science

This is part of a special series of lectures in collaboration with the Institute of Psychiatry.  Other lectures in this series on th...

Over the last decades, HIV/AIDS has emerged as a major new disease, reversing gains in life expectancy that had been won over many d...

Today, any mention of the medieval leper conjures up alarming images of exclusion, ostracism and fear, but such ideas are large...

In 1739, Captain Thomas Coram was dismayed at the sight of children dying on the dung heaps of London. These children, mostly foundlings...

Bethlem Hospital was an integral part of London’s charitable provision for the poor in medieval and early modern times. Hand in han...

How do the real Crackers operate and how successful are they?  Intuitive approaches to criminal profiling capture the imagination bu...

The extraordinary story of this neglected quarter of London that in the late 19th century boasted seven major hospitals, of which only on...

This lecture is a part of the series Twenty-First Century Threats. Other lectures in this series include the following:
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In 1955, the World Health Organization announced an ambitious plan to eradicate malaria from the face of the earth. Now, nearly sixty yea...

This lecture is a part of the series Twenty-First Century Threats. Other lectures in this series include the following:
 ...

Over the last decades, HIV/AIDS has emerged as a major new disease, reversing gains in life expectancy that had been won over many...

This is part of a special series of lectures in collaboration with the Institute of Psychiatry.  Other lectures in this series on...

Political affiliations reflect social class and upbringing but personality factors also contribute, including genetically determined...

What makes us happy? Is it a genetic trait that we are stuck with, or a product of events unfolding in our living? Does it help to be...

Can music heal? For centuries its therapeutic virtues have been extolled. The various uses to which it is put are described and the...

In 1998 a medical furore broke out when The Lancet published an article by Andrew Wakefield questioning the benefits of the MMR...

Known to many as “the father of immunology”, Edward Jenner changed the path of world history on the 14^th of May...

BOOK LAUNCH

At the end of the eighteenth...

SYMPOSIUM

Professor William Ayliffe FRCS, Gresham Professor of Physic, Professor Carole Rawcliffe, Professor of Medieval History...

Half a million people in the UK are on the autistic spectrum, all...