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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The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
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Two health centres, two ideologies
Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.
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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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Memorandum by the Director-General, Army Medical Service, on the transmission of enteric fever by the "chronic carrier" / Army.
Great Britain. Army.Date: 1909
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Second report by the Director-General, Army Medical Service, on the transmission of enteric fever by the "chronic carrier" : in continuation of Command paper, no.4,609 / Army.
Great Britain. Army.Date: 1909- Books
Index to reports from the Select Committee on Army before Sebastopol.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the Army before Sebastopol.Date: [1855]- Books
Report of the Committee appointed to enquire into the pay, status, and conditions of service of medical officers of the Army and Navy.
Great Britain. Committee Appointed to Enquire into the Pay, Status, and Conditions of Service of Medical Officers of the Army and Navy.Date: 1889- Books
First report from the Select Committee on the Army before Sebastopol : with the proceedings of the committee.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the Army before Sebastopol.Date: [1855]