Brought to life -- the complete website

The Science Museum’s new history of medicine website has now been completed. In all it now present 4000 new images of artefacts from the collections linked to 16 specialised themes on medicine across time, written by staff and other professional historians of medicine. Each theme is associated with bibliographies and interactives suitable for teaching at several levels.


The themes are:

Belief and medicine; Birth and death; Controversies and medicine; Diagnosis; Diseases and epidemics; Hospitals;Mental health and illness; Practising medicine; Public health;Science and medicine; Surgery;Technology and medicine; Medical traditions;Treatments and cures; Understanding the body; War and medicine

You can find the site at: www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife

Under a creative commons policy the images are available for download.


Dr Robert Bud

Principal Curator of Medicine

The Science Museum, London



+44 207 942 4200

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