Stories
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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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The origins and meanings of pharmacy symbols
What have snakes, unicorns and crocodiles got to do with pharmacies? The history of these modern signs goes back to the Greek gods.
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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.
Catalogue
- Journals
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Journal and Proceedings of the Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland
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Pharmacy : effective caring / [Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain].
Date: [1993?]- Journals
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland.
Date: 1834-- Books
Chemists through the years : a collection of reprints from Education in Chemistry and Chemistry in Britain. Pt. 1 / edited by Douglas Servant.
Date: [1994]- Journals
Occasional papers / Historical Group, the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Date: 1997-