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.
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Disability, education and prejudice
In the 1960s and 1970s, thalidomide survivors had to fight for a proper education. If they weren’t brought up in institutions, they were often viewed as objects of curiosity, encountering verbal and sometimes physical abuse, both at school and in the world beyond.
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The father of handwashing
Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.
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Mary Bishop and the surveillant gaze
Writer and artist Rose Ruane explores the paintings of Mary Bishop, created during a 30-year stay in a psychiatric hospital, which speak of constant medical surveillance and censorious self-examination.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Hospitals and Institutions: Miscellany
Date: 1813-1916Reference: MS.7280- Books
Hospitals and institutions handbook and buyers' guide of specialized advertisers 1935-1936 / by A. Milsom.
Milsom, A.Date: [1936]- Archives and manuscripts
Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, Brompton, London
Date: 1847Reference: MS.7280/3Part of: Hospitals and Institutions: Miscellany- Archives and manuscripts
Benevolent Institution, London
Date: 1816Reference: MS.7280/2Part of: Hospitals and Institutions: Miscellany- Archives and manuscripts
London Temperance Hospital
Date: 1916Reference: MS.7280/5Part of: Hospitals and Institutions: Miscellany