Stories
- Article
London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
- 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.
- Article
The origins and meanings of pharmacy symbols
What have snakes, unicorns and crocodiles got to do with pharmacies? The history of these modern signs goes back to the Greek gods.
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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.
Catalogue
- Journals
Annual report of the Local Government Board.
Great Britain. Local Government Board.Date: 1872-1919- Journals
Departmental report / Dept. of Trade and Industry ; presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and the Chief Secretary to the Treasury.
Great Britain. Department of Trade and Industry.- Journals
Annual report of the Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education.
Date: 1910-1921- Books
Abstracts of the returns made to the Board of Trade of shipping casualties which occurred on or near the coasts or in rivers and harbours of the United Kingdom from the 1st July 1892 to the 30th June 1893 : also of the returns made to the Board of trade during the year 1892-93 of shipping casualties which occurred to British vessels elsewhere than on the coasts of the United Kingdom, and to foreign vessels on or near the coasts or in rivers and harbours of British possessions abroad.
Date: 1894- Journals
Annual report of the Local Government Board for Scotland.
Date: [1896?]-1920