Stories
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NHS Blue: the colour of universal healthcare
The 1980s and 1990s saw ideas from the world of business infiltrating the NHS, including the introduction of an internal market, followed by a corporate branding exercise.
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In search of the ‘nature cure’
Under the competing pressures of modern life, many of us succumb to mental ill health. Samantha Walton explores why so-called ‘nature cures’ don’t help, and how the living world can actually help us.
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Artificial intelligence and the dream of eternal life
Until now, eternal life was the stuff of fiction, or in the unknowable realms of religion. But an artificial intelligence that ‘remembers’ the whole of an individual’s experience could be the way to life after death.
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London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
Catalogue
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Illustrations of the corporal & spiritual works of mercy / by a sister of the Religious Order of Our Lady of Mercy. With descriptive anecdotes.
Date: 1840- Pictures
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The works of mercy. Drawing by C. Groeneveld, 1808.
Groeneveld, Cornelis, active approximately 1795-1813.Date: 1808Reference: 46991i- Pictures
Works of mercy. Oil painting by a painter associated with Frans II Francken.
Francken, Frans, 1581-1642.Reference: 45077i- Pictures
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Orphans.
Robinson, Frederic Cayley, 1862-1927Date: 1915Reference: 672831iPart of: Acts of mercy. Oil paintings by Frederick Cayley Robinson, 1915-1920.- Pictures
The doctor.
Robinson, Frederic Cayley, 1862-1927Date: 1916Reference: 672830iPart of: Acts of mercy. Oil paintings by Frederick Cayley Robinson, 1915-1920.