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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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Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
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Duplicated report on the War Office exercise "Medical Britannia", simulating a nuclear attack on Great Britain
Date: 1949Reference: RAMC/1167Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection
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'Medical administration in the South African War, being a report of speeches delivered by Sir William Church, President, R.C.P., London, Sir William MacCormac, President, R.C.S., England, and Surgeon General J. Jameson, late Director General, Army Medical Services, at a complimentary dinner given to the latter by the Medical Profession of Great Britain and Ireland, on the 24 July 1901'
Date: 1901Reference: RAMC/189Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Books
The Royal Army Medical Corps in the Great War : rare photographs from the wartime archives / Timothy McCracken.
McCracken, TimothyDate: 2017
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A general view of the present state of lunatics, and lunatic asylums, in Great Britain and Ireland and in some other kingdoms, by Sir Arthur Halliday (London: Thomas and George Underwood, 1828)
Date: 1828Reference: RAMC/1372Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Recruitment notice of the 3rd London (City of London) Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial Army, 56th (1st London) Division, for a new peace time establishment
Date: c.1919Reference: MS.7936/20Part of: Cantlie, Sir James, F.R.C.S. (1851-1926)