Stories
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Our Covid complicity
Athena Stevens thought she had a cold that she tried to ignore, but it turned out to be Covid-19. Here she reflects on how we have all put ourselves and others at risk with the choices we’ve made during this pandemic.
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We who can’t believe
Unless she falls to the floor unconscious, Anne Boyer has always ignored signs of illness. Cancer, however, made her face her fallibility.
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What is hysteria?
Hysteria has long been associated with fanciful myths, but its history reveals how it has been used to control women’s behaviour and bodies
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Love, grief and assisted dying
In this deeply affecting story, Michelle Elliot explores the events and emotions around the time of her mother’s medically assisted death in Canada, where the practice is legal.
Catalogue
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Hospital Part 2.
Date: 2017- Books
Key to map showing hospitals within the home counties 1944 : addresses and bed complements of 1. Voluntary hospitals: (a) General (b) Special, 2. Public authority hospitals (a) General (b) Special (c) Mental (d) Isolation, 3. Public assistance institutions with provision for the sick / prepared by King Edward's Hospital Fund for London.
Date: 1944- Videos
Hospital Part 1.
Date: 2017- Videos
Hospital. Part 6.
Date: 2017- Videos
Hospital. Part 5.
Date: 2017