Stories
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Sockets and stumps
Historian Emily Mayhew has met soldiers who have survived the seemingly unsurvivable. Here, she explores the part prosthetics play in the process of military rehabilitation.
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Aphasia and drawing elephants
When Thomas Parkinson investigated the history of “speech science”, he discovered an unexpected link between empire, elephants and aphasia.
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Medics and the bomb
Would a nuclear attack on the UK overwhelm the NHS? At the height of the Cold War, despite government optimism, medics predicted doom.
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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.
Catalogue
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Naval and military hygiene.
International Congress of Hygiene and Demography.Date: 1892- Books
Medics at war : military medicine from colonial times to the 21st century / John T. Greenwood, F. Clifton Berry, Jr.
Greenwood, John T.Date: [2005], ©2005- Ephemera
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Reception and banquet, Friday, 10th May, 1929 / International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy.
International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy 1929 : London)Date: 1929- Ephemera
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Plan shewing arangement of tables on the occasion of the reception and banquet to the Fifth International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy, Friday, 10th May, 1929.
International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy 1929 : London)Date: 1929- Ephemera
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Presentation luncheon to Col. Sir William Smith, M.D. at Apothecaries Hall on Wednesday 12th June 1929 / Fifth International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy.
International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy 1929 : London)Date: 1929