Stories
- Article
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.
- 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.
- 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.
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A reflection on art in a mental hospital
Artist Beth Hopkins explains how she used her experience of researching the Adamson Collection to create an embroidered wall hanging.
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Instructions for case-taking in the medical wards / London Hospital.
Date: [1912?]- Books
Instructions for case-taking in the medical wards / Guy's Hospital.
Date: 1883?]- Film
Hospital cross infection : dressing technique in wards.
Date: 1960- Pictures
Southend General Hospital, Essex: plans of various wards. Process print, 1932.
Date: 1932Reference: 552515iPart of: Architecture illustrated.- Journals
Researches published from the wards and laboratories of the London Hospital during.