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.
- Article
How architecture builds a profession of stress
Architects might produce buildings that enhance our health, but at what cost? Kristin Hohenadel explores architecture’s pressurised and stressful culture.
- Article
London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
- 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.
Catalogue
- Journals
Annual report of the General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland.
Date: [1858?]-- Journals
Annual report of the Scottish Board of Health.
Date: 1920-1929- Books
The recording of sickness absence in industry : (a preliminary report) / by a Sub-Committee of the Industrial Health Research Board.
Date: [1944]- Books
Conditions of service : [1st April 1972] / Whitley Councils for the Health Services (Great Britain), General Council.
Whitley Councils for the Health Services (Great Britain). General Council.Date: 1972- Archives and manuscripts
Communist Party of Great Britain
Date: October 1972Reference: SA/DRS/B/1/96aPart of: DrugScope