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Florence Nightingale, Victorian design and the treatment of Covid-19

Discover how the design of Britain’s Nightingale hospitals, set up during the first national lockdown, is based closely on Florence Nightingale’s pioneering ideas for the most effective hospital layout.

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The problem of the punctured heart

During World War II a young American surgeon working in England perfected shrapnel-removal techniques that saved dozens of lives. Discover how one case sealed his reputation as the founder of cardiac surgery.

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Reclaiming reality

While hospital routine and meds get to work on the psychosis, you can start to draw the threads of your life back together.

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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.

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  • Field Hospital Equipments by Major A. Leahy.
  • Field Hospital Equipments by Major A. Leahy.
  • Field Hospital Equipments by Major A. Leahy.
  • Field Hospital Equipments by Major A. Leahy.
  • Field Hospital Equipments by Major A. Leahy.
  • World War I: motorized field hospital; bivouac.
  • Serbo-Bulgarian War: the field hospital at Greovatz. Coloured wood engraving.
  • World War One: Italy: an Italian field hospital tent. Photograph, 1917.
  • George Purdey Field, Dean of St Mary's Hospital Medical School from 1883-1889
  • A doctor visiting patients in a field hospital ward in a tent. Lithograph.
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