Stories
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Hands-on healthcare
A young hospital volunteer feared her contribution was a long way from the serious business of real healthcare. But time spent painting patients’ nails proved to be a valuable contribution to life on the ward.
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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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Journeying home
A serious health scare was the catalyst to Chris beginning the process of understanding his experiences more clearly, and using that new insight to help other intersex people.
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Vaccinating a community, saving lives
Doctor Jane Harvey always goes the extra mile to care for her patients, and in recent months that’s extended to huge efforts to save lives with her coronavirus vaccination push.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Epidemiology UK: Mortality of G & DU (Radcliffe Hospital)
Date: [1959]Reference: PP/DOL/B/1/42Part of: Doll, Sir Richard (1912-2005)- Archives and manuscripts
Epidemiology UK: Mortality of G & DU
Date: [c.1958]-1961Reference: PP/DOL/B/1/43Part of: Doll, Sir Richard (1912-2005)- Archives and manuscripts
Maternal Mortality Committee
Date: Feb 1928-Jun 1935Reference: SA/NBT/F.9/4Part of: National Birthday Trust Fund- Archives and manuscripts
Perinatal Mortality Survey
Date: 1954-1990Reference: SA/NBT/MPart of: National Birthday Trust Fund- Archives and manuscripts
Baltimore. Lecture to Obstetrical Section, Johns Hopkins Hospital [Sponsored by Rh Typing Laboratory], "Survey of the British services for reducing Maternal and Neo-Natal Mortality"
Date: 1952Reference: PP/AWD/D/2/1Part of: Daley, Sir (William) Allen (1887-1969)