Stories
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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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Would you like to buy a unicorn?
The story behind why somebody tried to sell Henry Wellcome a unicorn head in 1928.
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Public health campaigns and the ‘threat’ of disability
By continuing to represent disability as the feared outcome of disease, public health campaigns help to perpetuate prejudice against disabled people.
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When monarchs healed the sick
Our current Queen fortunately doesn’t have to spend hours laying hands on the sick to cure them. But it was a different story for monarchs of the early modern era, whose touch was a sought-after treatment for scrofula.
Catalogue
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The Contagious Diseases Act of 1866, and its extension to the civil population of the United Kingdom / by J. Brendon Curgenven.
Curgenven, J. Brendon (John Brendon), 1831-1903.Date: 1868- Journals
Bulletin of epizootic diseases of Africa : Bulletin des epizooties en afrique.
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A treatise on nervous diseases / by John Cooke.
Cooke, John, 1756-1838.Date: 1820[-1823]
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An enquiry into the character of the Contagious Diseases Acts of 1866-1869 / by Elizabeth Garrett.
Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett, 1836-1917.Date: 1870- Books
Methods for the detection of the viruses of certain diseases in animals and animal products / [Agricultural Research Council of the UK].
Agricultural Research Council (Great Britain)Date: [1976]