Stories
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The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria
A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.
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Picturing mental health
Ron Hampshire created artworks while resident at Netherne psychiatric hospital. What can we learn from them?
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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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Remote diagnosis from wee to the Web
Medical practice might have moved on from when patients posted flasks of their urine for doctors to taste, but telehealth today keeps up the tradition of remote diagnosis – to our possible detriment.
Catalogue
- Books
Psychiatric epidemiology and mental health planning / edited by Russell R. Monroe, Gerald D. Klee [and] Eugene B. Brody.
Date: 1967- Archives and manuscripts
Seminar. 'Drugs in Psychiatric Practice'
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 1997-1998Reference: GC/253/A/2/3Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Archives and manuscripts
Organisation of Psychiatric Out-Patient Clinics
Date: 1949Reference: SA/BMA/B.88Part of: British Medical Association- Books
Psychiatric education and progress / [John C Whitehorn].
Whitehorn, J. C. (John C.)Date: [1957]- Archives and manuscripts
Edgar McCoy (Senior Psychiatric Social Worker)
Date: 1946-1989Reference: DGH1/6/16/8Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital