Stories
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Providing care across languages
When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.
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Is it really OK to not be OK?
Our mental healthcare system is still the poor relation of services that treat physical illness, and the pandemic has shone a spotlight on this situation. Campaigner James Downs argues for fundamental change.
- 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.
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Notice statistique sur l'Asile des aliénés de la Seine-Inférieure (Maison de Saint-Yon de Rouen) pour la période comprise entre le 11 juillet 1825 et le 31 décembre 1843 / par L. Deboutteville et M. Parchappe.
Date: 1845- Books
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Observations and essays on the statistics of insanity : including an inquiry into the causes influencing the results of treatment in establishments for the insane : to which are added The statistics of the Retreat, near York / by John Thurnam.
Date: 1845- Books
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Medical and general reports and accounts for the period 1st January to 4th July, 1948 : Ham Common, Richmond, Surrey / The Cassel Hospital for Functional Nervous Disorders.
Cassel Hospital for Functional Nervous Disorders (Richmond, England)Date: [1949?]- Books
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Statistics of insanity : being a decennial report of Bethlem Hospital, from 1846 to 1855 inclusive / by W. Charles Hood.
Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England)Date: [1856]- Books
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Total abolition of personal restraint in the treatment of the insane. A lecture on the management of lunatic asylums, and the treatment of the insane; delivered at the Mechanics' Institution, Lincoln, on the 21st of June, 1838; with statistical tables, ... / by Robert Gardiner Hill.
Date: [1839]