Stories
- Article
Drugs in Victorian Britain
Many common remedies were taken throughout the 19th century, with more people than ever using them. What was the social and cultural context of this development?
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The birth of Britain's National Health Service
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
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Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
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Two health centres, two ideologies
Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.
Catalogue
- Ephemera
- Online
AIDS : don't die of ignorance : government information 1987 / issued by the Department of Health and Social Security.
Date: 1986- Ephemera
- Online
AIDS : don't die of ignorance : government information 1987 / issued by the Department of Health and Social Security.
Date: 1986- Books
Women like us : Positively Women's survey on the needs and experiences of HIV positive women / Positively Women.
Date: [1994]- Books
The cancer problem : malignancy in nineteenth-century Britain / Agnes Arnold-Forster.
Arnold-Forster, AgnesDate: 2021- Books
COVID-19 and shame : political emotions and public health in the UK / Fred Cooper, Luna Dolezal and Arthur Rose.
Cooper, Fred (Historian of medicine)Date: 2023