Stories
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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.
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Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
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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.
Catalogue
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Annual report for the year 1903 (6th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.
Metropolitan Asylums Board (London, England)Date: 1904- Books
Smallpox afloat on Long Reach, 1893 / by John Burne.
Burne, John.Date: 1999- Books
Going down the river to the ships at Long Reach : being extracts from the reports of Chas. Thomson, Engineer Superintendent of the ambulance steamers 1885-1904. Part one / by John Burne.
Burne, John.Date: 1996- Books
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Annual report for the year 1905 (8th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.
Metropolitan Asylums Board (London, England)Date: 1906- Books
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Annual reports of the statistical committee and the medical superintendents of the infectious hospitals and imbecile asylums, also of the ambulance & training ship "Exmouth" committees, for the year 1888 / Metropolitan Asylums Board.
Metropolitan Asylums Board (London, England). Statistical Committee.Date: 1889