Stories
- Article
The birth of Britain's National Health Service
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
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London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
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Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
- Long read
Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Honorary Membership of the Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1969; Harben Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene, 1970
Date: 1969-1970Reference: PP/GSW/A/7Part of: Wilson, Sir Graham Selby- Archives and manuscripts
The Future of the Amalgamated Societies, the Parkes Museum and Sanitary Institute of Great Britain, a lecture given by Sir Douglas Galton, 6 December 1888
Date: 6 December 1888Reference: SA/RSP/A/4/5Part of: Royal Society for Public Health and predecessors- Books
Community mental health services in Northern Europe : Great Britain, Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden / [Sylvan S Furman].
Furman, Sylvan S., 1911-1992.Date: [1965]- Archives and manuscripts
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[Royal] Medico-Psychological Association of Great Britain and Ireland: Lunacy Legislation Committee, Draft Report, 1918
Date: 1918Reference: MS.4578Part of: George Edward Shuttleworth (1842-1928): archives- Books
Pandemic influenza : science to policy / The Royal Society, The Academy of Medical Sciences.
Royal Society (Great Britain). Science Policy Section.Date: 2006