Stories
- 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.
- In pictures
A history of art in hospitals
Art historian Anne Wallentine examines art in hospital settings – from its Christian devotional origins to its healing role in modern healthcare buildings.
- In pictures
The history of sanatoriums and surveillance
The sanatorium treatment for tuberculosis was a curious combination of sunshine, fresh air, exercise and constant surveillance.
- Article
Why some patients make my heart sink
Instead of getting nowhere with certain demanding, manipulative patients, our anonymous GP wonders if there’s a way to help them.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Commission of artworks - Stepping Hill Hospital corridor
Date: 2001Reference: ART/SAH/G/10Part of: Stockport Arts & Health: archives- Archives and manuscripts
UK Hospital & Health Services Atlas
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 1998Reference: GC/253/A/42/7/2Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Archives and manuscripts
The Directory of Hospital Telephone Numbers 1991
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 1991Reference: GC/253/A/42/7/6Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Archives and manuscripts
The Directory of Hospital & Health Service Addresses
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 1995Reference: GC/253/A/42/7/1Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Archives and manuscripts
Case book covering admissions 1938 - 1943 [Volume 4]
Date: 1938 - 1943Reference: 3473/3/36Part of: HOLLOWAY SANATORIUM, EGHAM: RECORDS OF THE HOSPITAL