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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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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The father of handwashing
Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.
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Why the NHS is worth saving
In this extract from his latest book, ‘Free For All’, Dr Gavin Francis poses challenging questions to be addressed if a health service that’s free for all at the point of use is to remain possible.
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Transactions of the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain.
Date: [1879?]-1888- Archives and manuscripts
Sanitary Institute of Great Britain, York. Certificate of Merit. For Lanoline Soap.
Date: 1886Reference: WF/M/C/14Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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Report of Committee and list of members : 1876 / Sanitary Institute of Great Britain.
Sanitary Institute of Great Britain.Date: 1876- Books
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Memorandum and articles of association / Sanitary Institute of Great Britain.
Sanitary Institute (Great Britain)Date: 1888- Books
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Sanitary Institute of Great Britain, Congress at York : inaugural address, delivered 21st Sept., 1886 / by Sir T. Spencer Wells.
Wells, Spencer, 1818-1897.Date: [1886]