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Families fighting for justice
In 1962 a group of parents whose children had been affected by thalidomide began a decades-long battle in the law courts, the media and Parliament in order to win fair justice for all thalidomide survivors.
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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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Two health centres, two ideologies
Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.
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Reports by professors of Army Medical School - arrangements for examinations of assistant surgeons at Chatham, Jan 1861. Also copies of correspondence with Sir James Gibson, War Office, etc., on this subject
Date: 1857-1861Reference: RAMC/1139/LP/14/1-9Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Books
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A letter to the Commissioners of Military Enquiry : containing animadversions on some parts of their fifth report ; and an examination of the principles on which the medical department of armies ought to be formed / by Edward Nathaniel Bancroft.
Date: 1808- Books
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An examination of the Report of the Commissioners to enquire into the mortality of the Army / by Alfred Aspland.
Aspland, Alfred, 1815-1880.Date: [1859]- Pictures
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Medical facilities available at a modern health centre contrasted with ill health in old-fashioned housing. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1942.
Games, Abram, 1914-1996.Date: 1943Reference: 20283i- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 7
Date: Aug 1903 - Jul 1904Reference: WF/E/01/01/07Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd