Stories
- Article
Communities of cross-feeders
A desire to help leads some women to “cross-feed” – breastfeed other parents’ babies for free. Alev Scott delves into the emotions behind this altruistic act.
- Photo story
Generation portraits
Photographer Julian Germain’s major project focusing on portraits of multi-generational families came to a sudden halt during the various Covid-19 lockdowns. Here families celebrate coming together again in words and images.
- Article
The father of handwashing
Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.
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NHS strikes and the decade of discontent
When the social unrest of the 1970s spread to the NHS, dissatisfied staff challenged the status quo for the first time in quarter of a century.
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A short account of the institution, plan, and present state of the New General Lying-in Hospital, in Store Street, Tottenham Court Road.
General Lying-In Hospital (Store Street, London, England)Date: [between 1785 and 1788]- Ephemera
Hospitals ephemera. Box 6.
- Ephemera
Alzheimer's & dementia ephemera. Box 1.
- Archives and manuscripts
PATIENTS' RECORDS: CASE FILES
Date: 1936-1966Reference: H64/B/08Part of: SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL {WOODSIDE HOSPITAL}- Books
Heal'ing : n. The act, process, or means by which a cure is effected; cure / [Greater New York's Blue Cross, associated hospital service of New York ; illustrated by David Stone Martin].
Date: [1966?]