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The building as tool of healing
| Emily Sargent
When we’re ill, it’s not just medical care that helps to treat us. Architects have discovered that the right environment can play an important part too.
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London, city of lost hospitals
| Dr Tom BoltonSimon Norfolk
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
| Anna Faherty
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
| Anna Faherty
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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The making of ‘Quacks’
| Helen Babbs
How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?