Stories
- Article
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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Bubbles of history
Since the 1960s, scientists have been able to study the air from past centuries by analysing particles in Arctic ice samples. But as the polar ice melts, the future of this research is changing.
- Book extract
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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NHS strikes and the decade of discontent
When the social unrest of the 1970s spread to the NHS, dissatisfied staff challenged the status quo for the first time in quarter of a century.
Catalogue
- Books
Rescue : the history of Britain's emergency services / by Gavin Weightman.
Weightman, Gavin.Date: 1996- Student dissertations
The forgotten war : medicine in Korea / Avinder Gobindpuri.
Gobindpuri, Avinder.Date: 2005- Student dissertations
Humanitarianism and medicine : médicins [i.e. médecins] sans frontières - doctors without borders / submitted by Moerida Belton.
Belton, Moerida.Date: 1998- Books
- Online
Rettungs-Gesellschaften und Samariter-Unterricht im vorigen Jahrhundert : nebst Unfallstatistiken von 1758 u.s.w. : Beitrag zur Geschichte des Samariter- und Rettungswesens / von George Meyer.
Meyer, George Henry Sidney, 1860-1923.Date: 1897- Books
Krankentransport und Rettungsdienst im Kreis Aachen 1816 - 2006 : Geschichte einer kommunalen Dienstleistung / Karl-Wilhelm Nellessen.
Nellessen, Karl-Wilhelm.Date: 2009