Stories
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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 secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
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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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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
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Report of the Committee appointed by the Secretary of State to enquire into the causes which tend to prevent sufficient eligible candidates from coming forward for the Army Medical Department.
Great Britain. Committee to Enquire into the Causes Which Tend to Prevent Sufficient Eligible Candidates From Coming Forward for the Army Medical Department.Date: 1878- Books
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Memorandum by the Director-General, Army Medical Service, on the transmission of enteric fever by the "chronic carrier" / Army.
Great Britain. Army.Date: 1909- Books
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Second report by the Director-General, Army Medical Service, on the transmission of enteric fever by the "chronic carrier" : in continuation of Command paper, no.4,609 / Army.
Great Britain. Army.Date: 1909- Archives and manuscripts
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Duplicated report on the War Office exercise "Medical Britannia", simulating a nuclear attack on Great Britain
Date: 1949Reference: RAMC/1167Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Books
Report of the Committee appointed to enquire into the pay, status, and conditions of service of medical officers of the Army and Navy.
Great Britain. Committee Appointed to Enquire into the Pay, Status, and Conditions of Service of Medical Officers of the Army and Navy.Date: 1889