Stories
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Florence Nightingale, Victorian design and the treatment of Covid-19
Discover how the design of Britain’s Nightingale hospitals, set up during the first national lockdown, is based closely on Florence Nightingale’s pioneering ideas for the most effective hospital layout.
- Article
The art of soundproof design
Too much noise is more than annoying – it has serious negative effects on health and cognitive ability. Find out how designers and architects are mitigating the downsides of sound.
- Article
Confusion, guilt, and the battle to breastfeed
Most new mums are told that breast is best. But breastfeeding doesn’t always come as easily or naturally as you might imagine.
- Long read
The ambivalence of air
Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.
Catalogue
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Notes on hospitals / by Florence Nightingale.
Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910.Date: 1863- Books
Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital : architectural competition / David Reilly.
Reilly, DavidDate: 1995- Books
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Modern hospital construction / W. Gilman Thompson.
Thompson, W. Gilman (William Gilman), 1856-1927.Date: 1907- Books
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Suggestions and instructions in reference to (1) - sites, (2) - construction and arrangement of buildings, (3) - plans of lunatic asylums / issued by the commissioners in lunacy.
Great Britain. Lunacy Commission.Date: 1870- Books
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Hospitals : their history, construction, and hygiene, (being a thesis for graduation at the University of Edinburgh, for which a gold medal was awarded) / by J. Francis Sutherland.
Date: [1882]