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Making sunstroke insanity

Medical historian Dr Kristin Hussey takes a closer look at sunstroke and mental illness, and how, in the late 19th century, they connected at the crossroads of colonial science and the idea of whiteness.

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Medics and the bomb

Would a nuclear attack on the UK overwhelm the NHS? At the height of the Cold War, despite government optimism, medics predicted doom.

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The enduring myth of the mad genius

There’s a fine line to tread between creativity and psychosis.

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The ambivalence of air

Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.

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  • Association of County Medical Officers of Health of England and Wales: members of the association, 1952. Photograph, 1952.
  • The medical directory.
  • Annual report for the year 1902 (fifth year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.
  • Asylums ephemera. Box 1.
  • Asylums ephemera. Box 1.
  • Asylums ephemera. Box 1.
  • Asylums ephemera. Box 1.
  • British journal of ophthalmology.
  • Bernhard Aloys von Gudden. Wood engraving, 1886.
  • Bernhard Aloys von Gudden. Wood engraving, 1886.
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