Stories
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NHS Blue: the colour of universal healthcare
The 1980s and 1990s saw ideas from the world of business infiltrating the NHS, including the introduction of an internal market, followed by a corporate branding exercise.
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Graveyards as green getaways
Stressed city dwellers have been visiting cemeteries in greater numbers since the start of the pandemic. Discover how, despite the constant reminders of death, graveyards bring visitors a sense of renewal.
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Healing hearts and saving lives
Cardiology is a prestigious specialism, known for its life-saving, heroic staff. But a doctor’s training eventually reveals other, less obvious ways to save lives.
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The search for a cure for endometriosis
Discover how a white American doctor’s experimental operations on black female slaves laid the foundations for modern gynaecological surgery.
Catalogue
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Krankentransport und Rettungsdienst im Kreis Aachen 1816 - 2006 : Geschichte einer kommunalen Dienstleistung / Karl-Wilhelm Nellessen.
Nellessen, Karl-Wilhelm.Date: 2009- Books
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Notes and recollections of an ambulance surgeon : being an account of work done under the Red Cross during the campaign of 1870 / by William MacCormac.
Date: 1871- Books
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South Wharf Receiving Station Rotherhithe 1883 - 1940 : a year-by-year account of events at South Wharf in the form of summaries and excerpts from the original records of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, London County Council etc.
Date: 2017- Books
War & trauma : soldiers and ambulances 1914-1918 In Flanders Fields Museum Ieper : soldiers and psychiatrists 1914-2014 Museum Dr. Guislain Gent : 01 November 2013 - 30 June 2014.
Date: [2013]- Videos
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The hospital of St. Bartholomew, Rochester, Kent.
Date: [1929]