Stories
- Article
The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria
A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.
- Article
The tower in fiction, film and life
The high-rise estates born of postwar idealism soon became symbols of crime and squalor. But after one terrible tragedy, public bodies are being forced to rethink our towers.
- Long read
Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
- Article
On being a father with OCD
As a parent to young children, Ben Falk worries whether he could somehow pass his OCD on to them. Here’s what the experts say.
Catalogue
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Eighty-ninth annual report for the year 1948 / Barnwood House Hospital for Mental and Nervous Disorders, near Gloucester.
Barnwood House Hospital for Mental and Nervous Disorders.Date: [1949]- Books
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Ninety-first annual report for the year 1950 / Barnwood House Hospital for Mental and Nervous Disorders, near Gloucester.
Barnwood House Hospital for Mental and Nervous Disorders.Date: [1950]- Books
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Ninety-fourth annual report for the year 1953 / Barnwood House Hospital for Mental and Nervous Disorders, near Gloucester.
Barnwood House Hospital for Mental and Nervous Disorders.Date: [1954]- Books
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Ninety-sixth annual report for the year 1955 / Barnwood House Hospital for Mental and Nervous Disorders, near Gloucester.
Barnwood House Hospital for Mental and Nervous Disorders.Date: [1956]- Books
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Ninety-second annual report for the year 1951 / Barnwood House Hospital for Mental and Nervous Disorders, near Gloucester.
Barnwood House Hospital for Mental and Nervous Disorders.Date: [1952]