Stories
- Photo story
Beautiful bedding and how to die well
When you are unwell, your bed can be both a refuge and a prison. Discover how artist Poppy Nash created a bed-centred artwork inspired by her own chronic illness and depictions of ill health from history.
- 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.
- Article
How hospital care fails disabled bodies
Hospitals aim to make sick people well. But if the sick person is also disabled, the unbending nature of monolithic hospital systems can easily worsen the situation. Here Jamie Hale writes from painful personal experience.
- Article
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.
Catalogue
- Books
Hospital beds by design : a socio-historical account of the 'King's Fund Bed', 1960-1975 / Ghislaine Mary Lawrence.
Lawrence, Ghislaine.Date: 2001- Books
Together... we must build today! : more hospital facilities, more hospital beds, our greatest need / Fairview Hospital.
Date: [1951?]- Archives and manuscripts
M0006961: View of beds in an Amsterdam Hospital ward
Date: 1 May 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/59/56Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
- Pictures
- Online
Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a dormitory with bunk beds. Photograph.
Date: 1885-1898Reference: 530709i
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
M0003460: Figures and beds for diorama of Rahere's Ward, St Bartholomew's Hospital
Date: 15 March 1933Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/28/43Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive