Stories
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Medics and the bomb
Would a nuclear attack on the UK overwhelm the NHS? At the height of the Cold War, despite government optimism, medics predicted doom.
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Medics, migration and the NHS
In the 1960s the NHS became Britain’s biggest employer. So to help fill all those jobs, the government brought in thousands of workers from abroad.
- In pictures
The post-war adverts that tried to cure lonely women
Isolated housewives, lonely female office workers: while the 1950s saw the birth of a general concern about them, manufacturers also spotted an opportunity. Find out how advertising promised that products could salve solitude.
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Interpreting the Ayurvedic Man
A British Sign Language video is the latest interpretation of an unique 18th-century Nepali painting about Ayurvedic medicine.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
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British Medical Students' Association/Medical Students' Representative Council
Date: 1976-1977Reference: SA/MWF/G.4Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Books
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Facts about small-pox and vaccination : issued by the Council of the British Medical Association, January 19th, 1898.
British Medical Association. Council.Date: [1898]- Archives and manuscripts
Written Evidence: British Medical Association: Scottish Council
Date: July 1966Reference: SA/CME/B/58Part of: Royal Commission on Medical Education 1966-1968- Archives and manuscripts
British Medical Association: general correspondence
Date: 1987-1989Reference: SA/HEC/A/43/6/1/2Part of: Health Education Council and Health Education Authority- Books
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Report of the Committee of Council of the British Medical Association on medical education, January 1881.
British Medical Association.Date: 1881