Medical science

Vision is the dominant sense through which sighted people have developed our culture.  It requires enormous computational power:...

The discipline of Ophthalmology is recognised both as an early adopter of new technology and a developer of novel techniques.  Soon...

The concluding lecture takes the example of HIV/AIDS and discusses how reactions to the epidemic mirrored those found in the social and...

It has been claimed that economics is just a branch of psychology.  Certainly movements on the stock market reflect human greed and...

How does my dog see?  Do eagles have better vision than humans?  This homocentric view of vision with its associated mythology...

Typhus, the subject of the fifth lecture in the series, was caused by a bacterium hosted by the human...

There are many circumstances in which it is important to detect deception.  Whether people are evaluating a partner's account...

Visual disorders affect the way we see, and therefore would be expected to influence how we depict the world in drawings and paintings...

‘Asiatic cholera’, which arrived in Europe in the early nineteenth century, was widely seen as Asia’s revenge on Europe for...

Why do humans sleep?  How much do we need to function effectively?  How are our sleep patterns affected by artificial light?...