Stories
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The birth of Britain's National Health Service
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
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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 history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
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A history of mindfulness
Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.
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The emergency medical services / [Cuthbert Lindsay Dunn].
Dunn, Cuthbert Lindsay, 1875-1956.Date: 1952-1953- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence - General Meeting and Executive Committee
Date: 14 Feb 1964Reference: SA/CMO/C/68Part of: Association of County Medical Officers of Health and the County Medical Officers Group of the Society of Medical Officers of Health- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence - General Meeting and Executive Committee
Date: 1 May 1964Reference: SA/CMO/C/71Part of: Association of County Medical Officers of Health and the County Medical Officers Group of the Society of Medical Officers of Health- Archives and manuscripts
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In Arduis Fidelis: Personal Geo. I - Waterloo
Date: 20th centuryReference: RAMC/562/5/7Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Airside manner - an inside/outside view of aviation medicine', article by Peter Masefield, Aerospace, Sep 1981, HEW's comments
Date: 1981Reference: PP/HEW/L.6Part of: Whittingham, Sir Harold E., 1887-1983, Air Marshal