Stories
- Article
NHS strikes and the decade of discontent
When the social unrest of the 1970s spread to the NHS, dissatisfied staff challenged the status quo for the first time in quarter of a century.
- Article
The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria
A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.
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The indelible harm caused by conversion therapy
With first-hand evidence from two powerful testimonies, neurologist Jules Montague explores the destructive history of conversion therapy, a punitive treatment designed to ‘cure’ people of homosexuality.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
Catalogue
- Books
The Inner eye : [an exhibition of work made in psychiatric hospitals] 15 January - 19 February 1978, Museum of Modern Art Oxford.
Date: 1978- Books
The Epsom cluster : voices from Europe's largest psychiatric hospital complex / Kirstie Arnould.
Arnould, KirstieDate: 2019- Books
Psychiatric reform in the Netherlands in the 19th century / J.M.W. Binneveld, M.J. van Lieburg.
Binneveld, J. M. W. (Johannes Martinus Wouter), 1943-Date: 1979- Books
Mental hospitals in Japan compared with those in the west : the danger of their 'high growth' / Kimio Moriyama.
Moriyama, Kimio.Date: 1989- Books
Dolhuizen - madhouses : chapters from the History of madhouses in Europe, 1400-1800 / Joost Vijselaar (editor) ; contributors, A.C.M. Kappelhof [and others].
Date: 1995