Stories
- Article
The birth of Britain's National Health Service
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
- Book extract
Why the NHS is worth saving
In this extract from his latest book, ‘Free For All’, Dr Gavin Francis poses challenging questions to be addressed if a health service that’s free for all at the point of use is to remain possible.
- Book extract
Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
- 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.
Catalogue
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Studies concerning the handling of milk / by the staff of the National Institute for Research in Dairying, University of Reading.
National Institute for Research in Dairying (Great Britain)Date: 1931- Books
Studies concerning the handling of milk / by the staff of the National Institute for Research in Dairying, University College, Reading.
National Institute for Research in Dairying (Great Britain)Date: 1924- Books
A study in vocational guidance carried out by the Industrial Fatigue Research Board and the National Institute of Industrial Psychology / [by Frances Gaw [and others]].
Date: 1926- Books
Report on the present state of knowledge concerning accessory food factors (vitamines) / compiled by a committee appointed jointly by the Lister Institute and the Medical Research Committee.
Committee upon Accessory Food Factors (Vitamines) (Great Britain)Date: 1919- 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