Stories
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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.
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Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
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Confusion, guilt, and the battle to breastfeed
Most new mums are told that breast is best. But breastfeeding doesn’t always come as easily or naturally as you might imagine.
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Disturbed minds and disruptive bodies
Prison officers tried to regulate women’s minds and bodies and maintain a new disciplinary routine in the second half of the 1800s.
Catalogue
- Books
Health, hygiene and longevity in medieval and Renaissance Europe / Richard Palmer.
Palmer, Richard (Richard John) (Librarian and historian)Date: 1991- Archives and manuscripts
Comments on proposed amendments to the Milk and Dairies (General) Regulations 1959 - bottle hygiene
Date: Apr-Aug 1972Reference: SA/SMO/L.114Part of: Society of Medical Officers of Health- Videos
What the Victorians did for us. Health and hygiene.
Date: 2003- Archives and manuscripts
Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene
Date: 1892-1997Reference: SA/RSP/BPart of: Royal Society for Public Health and predecessors
- Pictures
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Dangers to the health of infants: germs and bacteria. Colour lithograph, 1922.
Langstein, Leopold, 1876-1933.Date: 1922Reference: 4929iPart of: Atlas der Hygiene des Säuglings und Kleinkindes