Stories
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Providing care across languages
When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.
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The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
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Drugs in Victorian Britain
Many common remedies were taken throughout the 19th century, with more people than ever using them. What was the social and cultural context of this development?
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How light pollution affects our circadian rhythms
Too much of the wrong sort of light can send our natural cycles off-kilter – is city life messing with your circadian rhythm?
Catalogue
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Managing diabetes, managing medicine : chronic disease and clinical bureaucracy in post-war Britain / Martin D Moore.
Moore, Martin D.Date: 2019- Ephemera
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October 29 - November 1, 1990, Montreux, Switzerland : First announcement : Assessing AIDS prevention : international conference / Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Lausanne.
Date: [1990?]- Books
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Vaccinating Britain : mass vaccination and the public since the Second World War / Gareth Millward.
Millward, GarethDate: 2019- Ephemera
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October 29 - November 1, 1990, Montreux, Switzerland : First announcement : Assessing AIDS prevention : international conference : abstract submission deadline June 15, 1990, registration deadline September 30, 1990 / Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Lausanne.
Date: [1990?]- Archives and manuscripts
Society for Social Medicine
Society for Social MedicineDate: 1956-2012Reference: SA/SSM