Stories
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Designing better mental health wards
Bringing colour and natural light to tired, grubby mental health wards has a measurably positive effect on patients. A few groundbreaking projects are showing the way.
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Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
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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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Desperate housewives and suburban neurosis
Discover how a pioneering health centre replaced housewives’ supposedly empty home lives with a social space that encouraged healthy child rearing.
Catalogue
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Developing supportive design for people with dementia : the King's Fund's Enhancing the healing environment programme 2009-2012 / Sarah Waller, Abigail Masterson, Hedley Finn ; editor, Eleanor Stanley.
Waller, SarahDate: 2013- Books
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Letter to the governors and council of St. Thomas's Hospital on the question of site.
Turle, James.Date: [1863]- Books
Optimum environments for optimum health and creativity : designing and building a healthy home or office / William J. Rea.
Rea, William J. (Physician)Date: [2002], ©2002- Books
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Étude des appareils de chirurgie et de ventilation établis à l'hôpital Necker / par C. Grassi.
Grassi, C.Date: 1859- Books
Designing primary healthcare premises : a resource / prepared for North West Regional Health Authority/NHS Executive North West by MARU, Health Buildings Research and Policy Centre.
Date: 1996