Stories
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How to design an HIV awareness campaign
Using carefully crafted, colourful graphics is one public health team’s creative approach.
- Article
Building a dream in the garden suburbs
In the late 19th century a ‘garden suburb’ promised a retreat from London’s dirt and crowds. See how this new concept was developed to appeal to the health concerns of the literary classes.
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How architecture builds a profession of stress
Architects might produce buildings that enhance our health, but at what cost? Kristin Hohenadel explores architecture’s pressurised and stressful culture.
- 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.
Catalogue
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Designs in architecture; consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for temples, baths, cassines, pavilions, garden-seats, obelisks, and other buildings; for decorating Pleasure - Ground, Parks, Forests, &c. &c. Engraved on 38 copper-plates. By John Soan.
Soane, John, Sir, 1753-1837.Date: M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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The plans and purposes of the Johns Hopkins Hospital : an address delivered at the opening of the Hospital, May 7, 1889 / by John S. Billings.
Billings, John S. (John Shaw), 1838-1913.Date: 1889- Books
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On the defects, with reference to the plan of construction and ventilation, of most of our hospitals for the reception of the sick and wounded / by John Roberton.
Roberton, John, 1797-1876.Date: [1856]- Books
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A description of hospital buildings on the pavilion plan / by Albert Vander Veer ; [with illustrative plates by the architect, A.W. Fuller].
Vander Veer, A. (Albert), 1841-1929.Date: 1898- Books
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The claims of science to public recognition and support : a reprint from the Journal of the Statistical Society, with a retrospect of the efforts made by the Society to provide itself and cognate societies with suitable house accommodation : and an appendix containing sundry plans and elevations / by Dr. Guy.
Guy, William A. (William Augustus), 1810-1885.Date: 1882