Stories
- Long read
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.
- Article
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.
- Article
Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
- Book extract
Inside the Cold War mind
Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.
Catalogue
- Books
National diet and nutrition survey : young people aged 4 to 18 years: a survey carried out in Great Britain on behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Departments of Health by the Social Survey Division of the Office for National Statistics and Medical Research Council Human Nutrition Research. Volume 1, Report of the diet and nutrition survey. / Jan Gregory, Sarah Lowe ; with Christopher J. Bates [and others].
Gregory, Janet.Date: [2000], ©2000- Books
Management of financial resources in the National Health Service.
Date: 1978- Archives and manuscripts
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National Confidential Enquiry into Counselling for Genetic Disorders
Date: April 1998Reference: SA/SCT/B/2/9Part of: Brent Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Centre- Books
Industrial noise and its effect on hearing / appraisal by the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council on the final report of the research made under Section 71 of the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1965 into noise in industry and its effect on hearing.
Date: [1969]- Archives and manuscripts
CASR records: 15; 23; 30; 53; 58; 80; 90; 93
Date: 1967-1968Reference: SA/TIH/B/1/4/3Part of: Tavistock Institute of Human Relations