Stories
- Article
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.
- Article
Lovesickness and ‘The Love Thief’
An 11th-century poem of love, lust and possibly gruesome death still resonates today.
- Article
The unimprovable white cane
Recent technological additions to the white cane aim to make the world easier for visually impaired people to navigate. Alex Lee explores whether new is really better.
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The ‘undesirable epileptic’
Abused in her marriage for being 'a sick woman', Aparna Nair looked to history to make sense of the response to her epilepsy. She discovered how centuries of fear and discrimination were often endorsed by science and legislation.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Edith How-Martyn: notes for talks etc
Date: 20th centuryReference: PP/EPR/A.3Part of: Eileen Palmer: collection of material on birth control, including papers of Edith How-Martyn and Olive Johnson- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
RAMC Band: photographs of the band and of some its members
Date: Late 19th century - late 20th centuryReference: RAMC/2015Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Christophers, Sir (Samuel) Rickard, CIE, OBE, FRS (1873-1978), protozoologist and expert in tropical medicine
Christophers, S. R. (Samuel Rickard), 1873-1978.Date: 20th centuryReference: GC/161- Archives and manuscripts
British Social Hygiene Council
British Social Hygiene CouncilDate: 20th centuryReference: SA/BSH- Books
Tantra : enlightenment to revolution / Imma Ramos.
Ramos, ImmaDate: 2020