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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.

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The child whose town rejected vaccines

Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.

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Intelligence testing, race and eugenics

Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.

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Why the NHS is worth saving

In this extract from his latest book, ‘Free For All’, Dr Gavin Francis poses challenging questions to be addressed if a health service that’s free for all at the point of use is to remain possible.

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  • Royal Institution of Great Britain, Albemarle-street, August 30, 1841 : the extended and practical course of chemical lectures and demonstrations for medical and general students, delivered in the laboratory of this institution by professor Brande and E. Solly, jun., esq., will commence on Tuesday, the 5th of October at nine in the morning... / Joseph Fincher.
  • The medical register.
  • The medical register.
  • The medical register.
  • The medical register.
  • Appendix to report of the committee for scientific inquiries in relation to the cholera-epidemic of 1854.
  • Appendix to report of the committee for scientific inquiries in relation to the cholera-epidemic of 1854.
  • Appendix to report of the committee for scientific inquiries in relation to the cholera-epidemic of 1854.
  • Appendix to report of the committee for scientific inquiries in relation to the cholera-epidemic of 1854.
  • Appendix to report of the committee for scientific inquiries in relation to the cholera-epidemic of 1854.
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