Stories
- Article
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.
- Long read
Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
- Article
The tale of the toxic kidneys
In 1954 a serendipitous coming together of skills and circumstances allowed the first successful organ transplant to take place. Read how Richard Herrick’s life was prolonged by his identical twin’s generosity.
- Article
Soil health and dairy farming in the UK
Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.
Catalogue
- Ephemera
Weight : being overweight - the problems.
Date: 1995- Ephemera
Weight : being overweight - the problems.
Date: 1993- Archives and manuscripts
Heart disease: 20 questions - and their answers
Date: c.1960s-1980sReference: SA/NPT/A/6/4/3/16Part of: National Association for the Prevention of Consumption and other forms of Tuberculosis, successor and associated bodies- Archives and manuscripts
LAYH - Europe Against Cancer
Health Education CouncilDate: 1989Reference: SA/HEC/B/4/25Part of: Health Education Council and Health Education Authority- Pictures
- Online
Two birds in the shape of condoms kiss with a red heart between them representing an advertisement for safe sex and AIDS and the family to mark World AIDS Day on 1st December 1994? in Japan. Colour lithograph, ca. 1994.
Date: [1994?]Reference: 678538i