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Tonics and curatives

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Marketing cures, sometimes of dubious efficacy.

Clinical trials

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Today's clinical trials evolved from trial-by-error studies of new treatments.

What is a medicine?

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The boundaries between medicines and other products are becoming increasingly blurred.

Taxing taxonomy

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Taxonomy provides a way of characterising living things and documenting family relationships.

A fly on sugar crystals

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Listen to Dave McCarthy and Annie Cavanagh talking about their work.

How did Asian medicine try to keep people healthy?

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A Wellcome Library GCSE learning resource for Medicine Through Time.

What factors brought improvements in children's health in the 20th century?

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This topic offers an interesting sidelight on how different medicine and healthcare for children have to be.

What can the history of herbal cures tell us about the history of medicine?

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One of the key concepts of the Medicine Through Time course is change and continuity.

Death

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Our own mortality both fascinates and repels us.

Genetics

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The study of DNA, genes and genomes can be controversial.

Life, Genes & You

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Knowledge of our genetic code has radically altered our understanding of our lives.

Mind & Body

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Separate and yet interdependent, the two halves of our existence.

Neuroscience

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Investigating the structure and function of the nervous system and brain.

Imaging the Body

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The urge to image the human body has always been driven by a complex set of intentions.

The Heart

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The organ that circulates our blood still retains rich emotional and cultural significance.

Malaria

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The disease that continues to kill 2.7 million people every year.

Epidemics

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Devastating diseases that have affected human populations throughout the ages.

Tonics and Curatives

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Marketing cures, sometime of dubious efficacy.

Sickness & Health

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Medicine has always sought to understand illness and maintain wellbeing.

Time & Place

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Medicine in history and culture.

Islam and Medicine

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A greatly influential tradition of faith and healing.

London

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The capital city's rich history of disease and medicine.

Pioneers

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Many medical advances are made through collective effort, but it is the individual pioneer who catches our imagination.

Science & Art

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Often seen as opposites, science and art both depend on observation and synthesis.

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