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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 ambivalence of air
Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.
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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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Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs
The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.
Catalogue
- Books
The medical examination for fitness for flying : (Royal Air Force and civil).
Great Britain. Air MinistryDate: 1936- Books
- Online
Principles of anatomy and physiology for physical training instructors in the Royal Air Force.
Date: 1946- Journals
Report on the health of the Royal Air Force and Women's Royal Air Force / [Air Ministry].
Date: [1949?-]- Pictures
World War I: a crashed Royal Air Force aeroplane. Gouache in grisaille.
Date: [1918?]Reference: 45171i- Books
Practice guidance for community pharmacists on the care of people with diabetes / RPSGB Diabetes Task Force.
Date: 2001