Stories
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Bleeding healthy
For thousands of years, and in many different cultures, people have practised bloodletting for health and medical reasons. Julia Nurse explains where and when bleeding was used, how it was done, and why.
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The mystery of the malignant brain
In 1884 a neurologist successfully used a patient’s symptoms, plus a new kind of map, to locate a brain tumour. Discover how his best-laid plans for treatment worked out.
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Medics, migration and the NHS
In the 1960s the NHS became Britain’s biggest employer. So to help fill all those jobs, the government brought in thousands of workers from abroad.
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The leukaemia diagnosis I didn’t see coming
Treatment for leukaemia kept journalist Hannah Partos in isolation, like the female prisoner whose image inspired her to write this piece.
Catalogue
- Books
Nurse-patient relationships in psychiatry / by Helena Willis Render.
Render, Helena Willis.Date: [1947], ©1947- Books
Nurse-patient relationships in psychiatry / Helena Willis Render, M. Olga Weiss.
Render, Helena Willis.Date: 1959- Film
Nurse-patient relationships in mental retardation.
Date: 1972- Archives and manuscripts
Geriatric Hospital Care Project
Date: 1969-1975Reference: SA/TIH/B/2/64Part of: Tavistock Institute of Human Relations- Archives and manuscripts
IOR records: 783-798 [missing 786-787]
Date: 1974-1979Reference: SA/TIH/B/1/6/30Part of: Tavistock Institute of Human Relations