Stories
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Doctor in the house
A house is not always a home – sometimes it’s impermanent, impersonal. But other aspects of the itinerant life can be the source of a sense of home.
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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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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.
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When ‘get well soon’ doesn’t cut it
When loved ones are seriously ill, we can hide behind dishonest platitudes or struggle to find the words. Meet the woman working to fix how we speak to sick people.
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The Philadelphia polyclinic.
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Massage and the original Swedish movements : their application to various diseases of the body : lectures before the training schools for nurses connected with the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, German Hospital, Woman's Hospital, Philadelphia Lying-In Charity Hospital, the Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for Graduates in Medicine, and the Kensington Hospital for Women, of Philadelphia / by Kurre W. Ostrom.
Ostrom, Kurre W. (Kurre Wilhelm), 1865-Date: 1895- Books
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Massage and the original Swedish movements : their application to various diseases of the body : lectures before the training schools for nurses connected with the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, German Hospital, Woman's Hospital, Philadelphia Lying-In Charity Hospital, the Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for Graduates in Medicine, and the Kensington Hospital for Women, of Philadelphia / by Kurre W. Ostrom.
Ostrom, Kurre W. (Kurre Wilhelm), 1865-Date: 1899- Books
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Intra-ocular angiosclerosis and its prognostic and diagnostic significance : being an illustrated lecture delivered before the class in ophthalmology of the Philadelphia Polyclinic, November, 1906 / by G. E. de Schweinitz.
De Schweinitz, G. E. (George Edmund), 1858-1938.Date: [1907]- Archives and manuscripts
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, graduation certificate
Date: 13 March 1877Reference: WF/E/02/03/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd