Stories
- Article
The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
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Dying at home and the doctor’s role
Our anonymous GP talks about the bittersweet rewards of supporting a patient when he chose to die at home.
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Why we no longer keep our dead at home
Today in the UK we rarely sit with, touch, or perhaps even see our loved ones after they’ve died. Past practices were very different and, Claire Cock-Starkey argues, were more helpful for those grieving.
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The empty bungalow
Grandma’s unsteady piles of stuff have been dismantled and dispersed. From an empty bungalow, Georgie Evans makes a plea for hoarding behaviour to be better understood.
Catalogue
- Books
- Online
Home nursing / by E. Margery Homersham.
Homersham, E. Margery.Date: [1893]- Books
Home nursing / Muriel Skeet with Jean Stroud.
Skeet, Muriel.Date: 1975- Books
Home nursing and family health / Claire Rayner.
Rayner, Claire.Date: [1967]- Books
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Home nursing / W.H. Comstock Co., Ltd.
W.H. Comstock Co.Date: [Between 1890 and 1899?]- Books
Home nursing in few words / by J.M. Carvell.
Carvell, John Maclean, 1856-Date: [between 1910 and 1919?]