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Charged bodies

Electrified humans brought education and performance together with a spark in the 18th century.

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London, city of lost hospitals

Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.

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Guerrilla public health

From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.

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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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  • Focus on women : nutrition & health : a one-day conference : Commonwealth Institute, Kensington High Street, London W8 6NQ : Wednesday 15th November 1995 / National Dairy Council.
  • Focus on women : nutrition & health : a one-day conference : Commonwealth Institute, Kensington High Street, London W8 6NQ : Wednesday 15th November 1995 / National Dairy Council.
  • Focus on women : nutrition & health : a one-day conference : Commonwealth Institute, Kensington High Street, London W8 6NQ : Wednesday 15th November 1995 / National Dairy Council.
  • Focus on women : nutrition & health : a one-day conference : Commonwealth Institute, Kensington High Street, London W8 6NQ : Wednesday 15th November 1995 / National Dairy Council.
  • Focus on women : nutrition & health : a one-day conference : Commonwealth Institute, Kensington High Street, London W8 6NQ : Wednesday 15th November 1995 / National Dairy Council.
  • Demonstration of the Great Electric Induction Coil at the Polytechnic Institution in London in 1869 by Professor Pepper.
  • Demonstration of the Great Electric Induction Coil at the Polytechnic Institution in London in 1869 by Professor Pepper.
  • International exhibition of artistic furniture and home decorations, food, health and pharmacy 1907 : Crystal Palace, London : diploma for Grand-Prix with gold medal awarded to "Ajax" dry-cell (section speciale de medecine) for electric-system... / British Electric System.
  • International exhibition of artistic furniture and home decorations, food, health and pharmacy 1907 : Crystal Palace, London : diploma for Grand-Prix with gold medal awarded to "Ajax" dry-cell (section speciale de medecine) for electric-system... / British Electric System.
  • [Newspaper cutting (1848?) noting the exhibition of Joachim Eleizegui, The Spanish Giant, at the Cosmorama Rooms, Regent Street, London. There are others about the Royal Polytechnic Institution, Regent Street, Grimstone's Aromatic Regenerator (hair restorer) and J. D. Carr and Co.'s nutritious and health giving biscuits].
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