Stories
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Cowpox, Covid-19 and Jenner’s vaccination legacy
The well-known story of vaccination pioneer Edward Jenner has at its heart his drive to make vaccines free of charge and available to all. Now his principles extend to the global campaign for a people’s patent-free vaccine for Covid-19.
- Long read
Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
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Remote romance and the common cold
Getting creatively romantic due to a virus sounds all too contemporary, but our archives show what socially distanced seduction looked like seven decades ago.
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Born in the NHS
Despite underfunding, strikes and scandals, the first two decades of the 2000s has seen the British people’s love of and loyalty to the NHS soar.
Catalogue
- Books
The impact of HIV/AIDS on young people's hetrosexual behaviour in Britain : a literature review / Daniel Wight.
Wight, DanielDate: 1990- Books
The aetiology of acute appendicitis : proceedings of a meeting held on 22nd May 1986 at the MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit.
Date: 1986- Books
Studies of burns and scalds / reports of the Burns Unit, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, 1942-43.
Date: 1945- Books
Physiological responses to hot environments : an account of work done in Singapore, 1948-1953, at the Royal Naval Tropical Research Unit, with an appendix on preliminary work done at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, London / compiled by R. K. Macpherson.
Date: 1960- Books
The effectiveness of interventions to change health-related behaviours : a review of reviews / Ruth Jepson.
Jepson, Ruth.Date: 2000