Stories
- Article
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.
- Article
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.
- Article
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
British Medical Association: general correspondence
Date: 1987-1989Reference: SA/HEC/A/43/6/1/2Part of: Health Education Council and Health Education Authority- Archives and manuscripts
British Medical Association
Date: 1976-1983Reference: SA/ASH/J/13/1Part of: Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)- Archives and manuscripts
British Medical Association
Date: 1982-1985Reference: SA/ASH/J/13/2Part of: Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)- Archives and manuscripts
British Medical Association
Date: 1985-1988Reference: SA/ASH/J/13/3Part of: Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)- Ephemera
British Medical Association : 73rd annual meeting : Leicester, July 24th to 28th 1905 inclusive : members admission card.
British Medical Association. Annual Meeting (1905 : Leicester)Date: 1905