Video library

Here you can access all the video content produced by Wellcome Collection. Videos are grouped according to the related exhibition or event.

	Drawing on Life A free festival of events and activities featuring leading artists and scientists exploring what it means to be human. Festival highlights (7 min 40 s) How to Draw with Steven Appleby (6 min 30 s)
	Flesh Materials Library gave an experimental and experiential insight into the materiality of flesh and its connection to the human body, culture and medicine. Highlights from the night (4 min)
	From Atoms to Patterns This exhibition explored the intriguing creations of the Festival Pattern Group - a unique project at the 1951 Festival of Britain involving X-ray crystallographers, designers and manufacturers. Georgina Ferry on X-ray crystallography (7 min) Mary Schoeser on textile design (6 min)
	Hair Materials Library presented another event for the incurably curious. Video highlights of the event (4 min 26 s)
	In or Out? A debate hosted by Wellcome Collection on the subject of organ donation. Audience interviews before and after the event (4 min) Gill Haddow on a mandatory choice system (2 min 30 s) Monica Navarro-Michel on presumed consent (2 min 17 s) Juliet Tizzard on an opt-out system (3 min 20 s)
	Life Before Death Journalist Beate Lakotta and photographer Walter Schels asked 24 terminally ill people if they could accompany them during their last weeks and days. From these vigils came a series of insightful descriptions and photographic portraits taken before and after death. Beate and Walter talk about their experiences of meeting and photographing terminally ill patients (9 min 30 s)
	Live Surgery Audience members joined leading heart surgeon Francis Wells and his team while they performed an open-heart operation at Papworth Hospital. Surgery highlights (14 min)
	Meat of the Tongue series A series of events in partnership with Poet in the City exploring various aspects of the human body. The body (1 min 20 s) The eye (2 min 20 s) Disfigurement (2 min)
	Medical London 'Medical London' comprises a book of essays, a set of maps and a gazetteer, and covers the roles played by diseases, treatments and cures in London's sprawling history. Video extras feature locations from the walks in the book: The history of the Old Operating Theatre (5 min) Daniel Defoe and the ‘Journal of the Plague Year’ (2 min 35 s) Butchery and medicine at Smithfield (4 min) The floating Seamen’s Hospital at Greenwich (4 min 30 s) John Snow and the cholera outbreak of 1854 (6 min) Apothecaries and the Chelsea Physic Garden (5 min 40 s)
	Shifts in Perception A marathon performance and spectacular activities exploring ways of seeing. Highlights from the event (3 min 37 s)
	Skeletons: London’s buried bones Drawn from the Museum of London's astonishing collection of 17 000 skeletons spanning 16 centuries, this exhibition examined the bones of some of those who lived, died and were buried in our city. Bones (8 min) London and its bones (7 min)
	The Best of Medicine 'The Best of Medicine' and 'The Worst of Medicine' were two free events designed to stimulate public debate about the best and worst ideas, phenomena, developments and practices in the history of medicine. Views before and after the event (4 min 20 s) Vaccination as the best (2 min 10 s) Evidence-based medicine as the best (2 min 30 s) Homeopathy as the best (3 min 16 s) Oral contraceptive pill as the best (3 min 12 s)
	The Worst of Medicine 'The Best of Medicine' and 'The Worst of Medicine' were two free events designed to stimulate public debate about the best and worst ideas, phenomena, developments and practices in the history of medicine. Views before and after the event (3 min 50 s) Obsessive healthy living as the worst (2 min 50 s) Global migration of health professionals as the worst (1 min 30 s) Hippocrates as the worst (2 min 20 s) Vaccination as the worst (1 min)
	The Wellcome Debate Should it be illegal to sell genetic tests except through a doctor? This debate explored the issues around genetic tests. Highlights from the event (5 min 30 s)
	War and Medicine An exhibition looking at the impact of war on the 'home front' as well as on front-line medicine, considering the long-term implications for society of the traumas suffered and the lessons learned. David Cotterrell on Afghanistan (10 min 14s) Civil war in the Sudan (8 min)
	Wellcome Collection is One Our first birthday celebrations included taster tours, juggling, live music, a raffle and much more. Highlights from the event (3 min 37 s)

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