Stories
- Article
The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
- Article
Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
- Book extract
Why the NHS is worth saving
In this extract from his latest book, ‘Free For All’, Dr Gavin Francis poses challenging questions to be addressed if a health service that’s free for all at the point of use is to remain possible.
- Article
The making of ‘Quacks’
How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
'A Study of Medical Education in Great Britain'
Date: 1957-1958Reference: PP/GWP/D/22Part of: Pickering, Sir George White- Archives and manuscripts
R Milnes Walker, Medical Education in Britain [Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust]
Date: 1965Reference: SA/CME/C/20Part of: Royal Commission on Medical Education 1966-1968- Books
Report of the Postgraduate Medical Education Committee.
Great Britain. Postgraduate Medical Education Committee.Date: 1930- Journals
Annual report of the Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education.
Date: 1910-1921- Archives and manuscripts
'What is wrong with Medical Education in Great Britain.' Memorandum drawn up by George Pickering, with covering letter
Date: Aug 1941Reference: PP/CMW/G.10/3/1Part of: Lord Moran (Charles McMoran Wilson) (1882-1977): archives