Stories
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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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Desperate housewives and suburban neurosis
Discover how a pioneering health centre replaced housewives’ supposedly empty home lives with a social space that encouraged healthy child rearing.
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Reversing the psychiatric gaze
Nineteenth-century psychiatrists were keen to categorise their patients’ illnesses reductively – by their physical appearance. But we can see a far more complex picture of mental distress, revealed by those patients able to express their inner worlds in art.
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Booze and bad behaviour
Our love of alcohol is like a party that’s lasted nine centuries. But there are signs that the demon drink is losing its appeal.
Catalogue
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Health and clothing.
Date: [1928]- Videos
Health and clothing.
Date: [1928]- Books
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[Clothing, and its relation to health and disease] / by John Haddon.
Haddon, John.Date: Between 1800 and 1899?]- Books
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The influence of clothing on health / by Frederick Treves.
Treves, Frederick, 1853-1923.Date: [1886]- Books
Stitches in time : the story of the clothes we wear / Lucy Adlington.
Adlington, Lucy, 1970-Date: 2015