Stories
- Article
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.
- Article
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.
- Book extract
Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
- Article
When monarchs healed the sick
Our current Queen fortunately doesn’t have to spend hours laying hands on the sick to cure them. But it was a different story for monarchs of the early modern era, whose touch was a sought-after treatment for scrofula.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
'The Family Physicians'
Date: c.1852Reference: SA/FEN/C/10/4Part of: Fennings Pharmaceuticals- Books
Strength in study : an informal history of the College of Family Physicians of Canada / David Woods.
Woods, David.Date: 1979- Archives and manuscripts
Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons
Date: 1957Reference: PENROSE/1/13/66Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Archives and manuscripts
Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians
Date: 1928Reference: PENROSE/1/17/1Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Books
Family practice : creation of a specialty a narrative of events leading to establishment of the American Board of Family Practice in 1969 and reminiscences of men who were on the scene.
Date: [1980], ©1980