Stories
- Article
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.
- Book extract
The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
- Article
Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
- Article
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
- Archives and manuscripts
T Landheer: Short history of European Collaborative Health Services Study
Date: Feb 1995Reference: GC/191/19/6Part of: ECHS - European Collaborative Hospitals/Health Service Study- Archives and manuscripts
European Collaborative Health Services Study: notes on history and organisation
Date: Apr 1986Reference: GC/191/12/4Part of: ECHS - European Collaborative Hospitals/Health Service Study- Archives and manuscripts
Frank Rowntree: Dental Health Education papers
Date: 1959-1969Reference: PP/ROW/3/2Part of: Frank Rowntree papers- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence - General Meeting and Executive Committee
Date: 12 Jun 1964Reference: SA/CMO/C/72Part of: Association of County Medical Officers of Health and the County Medical Officers Group of the Society of Medical Officers of Health- Books
Personal reflections on dental care and health services in the People's Republic of China / Lois Gordon.
Gordon, LoisDate: 1980