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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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Dirt, disease and the Inspector of Nuisances
| Kristen den Hartog
In the days when ‘bad air’ was thought to spread disease, dozens of Inspectors of Nuisances ceaselessly struggled against the perils of dirt – both visible and invisible.
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How architecture builds a profession of stress
| Kristin Hohenadel
Architects might produce buildings that enhance our health, but at what cost? Kristin Hohenadel explores architecture’s pressurised and stressful culture.
- Long read
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
| Guy StaggJess Nash
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
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Disturbed minds and disruptive bodies
| Rachel BennettCatherine CoxHilary Marland
Prison officers tried to regulate women’s minds and bodies and maintain a new disciplinary routine in the second half of the 1800s.