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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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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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Rediscovering Margaret Louden, a forgotten NHS hero

Bored during lockdown, David Jesudason started bin diving at night. Then a chance discovery set him on a new path: to tell the story of a forgotten female surgeon.

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Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high

The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.

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  • A ward in the Royal Northern Central Hospital, London. Photograph, ca. 1912.
  • Royal Northern Hospital, Holloway Road, London: a proposed tower for the St. David's wing, Manor Gardens. Process print after C. Holden, 1921.
  • Statistics of insanity : being a decennial report of Bethlem Hospital, from 1846 to 1855 inclusive / by W. Charles Hood.
  • Statistics of insanity : being a decennial report of Bethlem Hospital, from 1846 to 1855 inclusive / by W. Charles Hood.
  • Statistics of insanity : being a decennial report of Bethlem Hospital, from 1846 to 1855 inclusive / by W. Charles Hood.
  • Statistics of insanity : being a decennial report of Bethlem Hospital, from 1846 to 1855 inclusive / by W. Charles Hood.
  • The last week of the present attractive performances : Balfe's grand opera, The daughter of St. Mark ... The peri ... / Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane.
  • Great Northern Central Hospital, Holloway Road, London: patients on the balconies of wards 4, 5 and 6. Photograph, 1912.
  • Great Northern Central Hospital, Holloway Road, London: ward 5 (the right section of a circular ward). Photograph, 1912.
  • Great Northern Central Hospital, Holloway Road, London: The Victoria Mary Ward (the left section of a circular ward). Photograph, 1912.
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