Stories
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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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Medics, migration and the NHS
In the 1960s the NHS became Britain’s biggest employer. So to help fill all those jobs, the government brought in thousands of workers from abroad.
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The rise and fall of a medical mesmerist
Uncover the fascinating story of the doctor who popularised hypnotism as a medical technique, and could name Dickens among his famous friends.
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The colonist who faced the blue terror
India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.
Catalogue
- Journals
Newsletter / British Medical Anthropology Society.
- Journals
BMAR : British medical anthropology review.
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The Rhind lectures in Archaeology in connection with the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland : delivered in December, 1889, on the early ethnology of the British Isles / by John Rhys.
Rhys, John, Sir, 1840-1915.Date: 1890-91- Books
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Hermanni Friderici Teichmeyeri, ... Elementa anthropologiæ, sive theoria corporis humani, : in qua omnium partium actiones, ex recenentissimis inventis anatomicis, et rationibus tum physicis, tum chimicis, tum denique mechanicis.
Teichmeyer, Hermann Friedrich, 1685-1744.Date: MDCCXIX [1719]- Books
Medical anthropology : regional perspectives and shared concerns / edited by Francine Saillant and Serge Genest.
Date: 2007