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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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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.

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The making of ‘Quacks’

How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?

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The building as tool of healing

When we’re ill, it’s not just medical care that helps to treat us. Architects have discovered that the right environment can play an important part too.

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  • Genetics frame of reference - the size of various genetic components, including DNA, a base pair, various sizes of deletions, chromosomes and genes are listed and compared with more familiar objects such as the Solar System, planets, cities, hospitals, wards, and so on.
  • The Chandkuri Leper Home and Hospital, Baitalpur, India: two Indian women hold bowls on their heads in front of the hospital wards. Photograph, 1890/1910.
  • Crimean War: Florence Nightingale assessing a ward at the military hospital in Scutari. Coloured lithograph, c. 1856, by E. Walker after W. Simpson.
  • The Smallpox Hospital, Highgate, Middlesex: design drawing. Wood engraving by Laing, 1849, after S.A. Matthews.
  • London Missionary School of Medicine: women's medical ward or Quin ward. Photograph.
  • Sheet of sketches showing the interior of the hospital ship the "Ganges", Sudan: with numbered key. Wood engraving.
  • Lourdes, France: a hospital ward: a priest and a nurse by the bed of a boy. Photograph, ca. 1937.
  • A British ward in the World War I hospital for British and French interned soldiers, at Lucerne, Switzerland: interior view, showing injured soldiers attended by two nuns. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • Garden Room. Palliative care. NHS Trust, UK
  • The Hospital of St. Peter, Wandsworth: bird's-eye view. Lithograph by M. &. N. Hanhart after T. S. Boys, 1849.
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