Stories
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NHS strikes and the decade of discontent
When the social unrest of the 1970s spread to the NHS, dissatisfied staff challenged the status quo for the first time in quarter of a century.
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How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory
A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.
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Providing care across languages
When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.
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The indelible harm caused by conversion therapy
With first-hand evidence from two powerful testimonies, neurologist Jules Montague explores the destructive history of conversion therapy, a punitive treatment designed to ‘cure’ people of homosexuality.
Catalogue
- Books
Administration of the public psychiatric hospital / formulated by the Committee on Hospitals, Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry.
Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. Committee on Hospitals.Date: [1960]- Books
The right to abortion : a psychiatric view / formulated by the Committee on Psychiatry and Law, Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry.
Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. Committee on Psychiatry and Law.Date: 1969- Books
Psychiatry and the mental health professionals : new roles for changing times / formulated by the Committee on Governmental Agencies, Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry.
Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. Committee on Governmental Agencies.Date: [1987], ©1987- Books
Us and them : the psychology of ethnonationalism / formulated by the Committee on International Relations, Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry.
Date: [1987], ©1987- Books
Public relations : a responsibility of the mental hospital administrator / formulated by the Committee on Hospitals.
Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. Committee on Hospitals.Date: [1963]