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Medics and the bomb
Would a nuclear attack on the UK overwhelm the NHS? At the height of the Cold War, despite government optimism, medics predicted doom.
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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.
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The post-war adverts that tried to cure lonely women
Isolated housewives, lonely female office workers: while the 1950s saw the birth of a general concern about them, manufacturers also spotted an opportunity. Find out how advertising promised that products could salve solitude.
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Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs
The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.
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Medical officer's reports
Date: 1964-1965Reference: SA/FPA/X28/3Part of: Family Planning Association- Books
Medical officer in China / by Captain Albert Fields.
Fields, Albert, Captain.Date: [1948]- Books
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Medical officer, Dr. P.H. Maclaren ; [Dr. Kenneth M. Douglas].
Date: [1908?]- Pictures
Medical officer staff working in ward on board the Royal Naval hospital ship, Berbice. Glass negative, ca. 1919.
Date: [1919]Reference: 586529i