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London, city of lost hospitals

Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.

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Getting under the skin

Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.

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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction

Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.

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Coasting to catastrophe

In climate change, everything – and everyone – is connected. The watery process that will gradually cut off the Isle of Thanet from the British mainland has begun, and everyone in the UK needs to pay attention.

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  • St. Thomas' Hospital, London, England: exterior. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
  • St. Charles Hospital Medical Centre, London, England: exterior. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
  • Charing Cross Hospital, Hammersmith, London, England: under construction. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
  • Guy's Hospital, London, England: a tower block under construction. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
  • Hammersmith Hospital, London, England: the intensive care and dialysis unit: exterior. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: the courtyard with prominent fountain and foliage. Etching by T. Godart, 1870.
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: the fountain in the centre of the courtyard with two figures looking at it. Wood engraving.
  • St. Thomas' Hospital, London, England: exterior view showing scaffolding on the building and the River Thames in the foreground. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: a corner of the Gibbs courtyard with many trees and the fountain in the centre. Etching by Lillian C. Smythe.
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: the fountain in the centre of the courtyard with a small boy looking at it, in the background the gateway to Smithfield. Photograph.
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