Stories
- Article
A brief history of ventilation
As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.
- Book extract
A history of sex for sale
Kate Lister’s cultural history of the sex trade puts sex workers centre stage. In this extract, she argues why the way we write, think and talk about sex work matters.
- Article
Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs
The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.
- Article
Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high
The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Local authorities and the Queen's Institute' Alison McMaster, extracted from District Nursing
Date: 1956Reference: SA/QNI/P.6/24Part of: Queen's Nursing Institute- Books
Polio across the Iron Curtain : Hungary's Cold War with an epidemic / Dóra Vargha.
Vargha, Dóra, 1979-Date: 2018- Archives and manuscripts
Histories and biographies
Date: 1890-1970Reference: SA/QNI/P.10Part of: Queen's Nursing Institute- Books
Mediterranean quarantines, 1750-1914 : space, identity and power / edited by John Chircop, Francisco Javier Martinez.
Date: 2018- Archives and manuscripts
Model rules suggested for local associations
Date: pre 1948Reference: SA/QNI/X.49/15Part of: Queen's Nursing Institute