Stories
- Article
NHS strikes and the decade of discontent
When the social unrest of the 1970s spread to the NHS, dissatisfied staff challenged the status quo for the first time in quarter of a century.
- Article
Providing care across languages
When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.
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How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory
A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.
- Long read
Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
Catalogue
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Administration of the public psychiatric hospital / formulated by the Committee on Hospitals, Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry.
Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. Committee on Hospitals.Date: [1960]- Books
The right to abortion : a psychiatric view / formulated by the Committee on Psychiatry and Law, Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry.
Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. Committee on Psychiatry and Law.Date: 1969- Books
Psychiatry and the mental health professionals : new roles for changing times / formulated by the Committee on Governmental Agencies, Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry.
Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. Committee on Governmental Agencies.Date: [1987], ©1987- Books
Us and them : the psychology of ethnonationalism / formulated by the Committee on International Relations, Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry.
Date: [1987], ©1987- Books
Public relations : a responsibility of the mental hospital administrator / formulated by the Committee on Hospitals.
Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. Committee on Hospitals.Date: [1963]