Stories
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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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The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
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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.
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Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
Catalogue
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In arduis fidelis : with best wishes for Christmas and the new year from / Royal Army Medical Corps.
Great Britain. Army. Royal Army Medical Corps.Date: [between 1960 and 1969?]- Ephemera
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The blood which you so generously gave has been used by the fighting forces ... / Army Blood Transfusion Service ; [illustrated by] Charles Thomas.
Great Britain. Army. Blood Transfusion Service.Date: [1942?]- Books
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This small token brings you the thanks of the Army Blood Transfusion Service for the contribution which you have made to-day to the medical services of the war / Army Blood Transfusion Service ; [illustrated by] Charles Thomas.
Great Britain. Army. Blood Transfusion ServiceDate: [[1942?])- Books
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Military miscellany : comprehending a history of the recruiting of the army, military punishments, &c., &c / by Henry Marshall.
Date: 1846- Books
Return to two addresses of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated 20 and 30 July 1866, - for, "Copies of the report and evidence of the Committee on the position, etc., of the medical officers of the Army and Navy, presided over by Vice Admiral Sir A. Milne.
Great Britain. Committee on the Position, etc., of the Medical Officers of the Army and Navy.Date: 1866