Stories
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Coasting to catastrophe
In climate change, everything – and everyone – is connected. The watery process that will gradually cut off the Isle of Thanet from the British mainland has begun, and everyone in the UK needs to pay attention.
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Born different
For Chris North, being born intersex in the 1940s meant his many childhood hospital visits, tests and operations were not explained or discussed. As he reveals, doctors encouraged strict secrecy.
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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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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.
Catalogue
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Hospitals in England and Wales: buildings, equipment and staff. Photographs, 194-.
Date: [between 1940 and 1949?]Reference: 663840i- Books
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Annual report for the year 1921-22 : (24th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.
Metropolitan Asylums Board (London, England)Date: 1922- Books
Our hospitals and charities illustrated. Vol.1, no.5, June 1904.
Date: 1904- Books
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Reports for the year 1892 of the statistical committee and the medical superintendents of the infectious hospitals and imbecile asylums, also of the ambulance & training ship "Exmouth" committees (7th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.
Metropolitan Asylums Board (London, England). Statistical Committee.Date: 1893- Books
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Reports for the year 1894 of the statistical committee and the medical superintendents of the infectious hospitals and imbecile asylums, also of the ambulance and training ship "Exmouth" committees (9th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.
Metropolitan Asylums Board (London, England). Statistical Committee.Date: 1895