Stories
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The building as tool of healing
When we’re ill, it’s not just medical care that helps to treat us. Architects have discovered that the right environment can play an important part too.
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Fees, funding and the NHS
In the 1950s, dramatic political battles over NHS charges brought down a government. But public confidence in the service still grew.
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NHS Blue: the colour of universal healthcare
The 1980s and 1990s saw ideas from the world of business infiltrating the NHS, including the introduction of an internal market, followed by a corporate branding exercise.
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Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
Catalogue
- Ephemera
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Lothian Health Board HIV/AIDS and Drugs Team : Northern General Hospital, Ferry Road, Edinburgh EH5 3DQ ... : Take Care.
Date: [between 1988 and 1997?]- Books
Report from 'the General Hospital near Nottingham' / by James Clarke, M.D., one of the physicians to the charity.
Clarke, James.Date: 1808- Books
Tropical fever and dysentery : being the result of an experiment by order of Government, in the General Hospital, Calcutta, and Garrison Hospital, Fort-William, in the years 1849-50, with a sketch of the theory resulting / by E. Hare.
Hare, E., active 1854.Date: 1854- Books
Verocytotoxigenic E. coli in Europe. 1, Methods for Verocytotoxigenic E.coli : proceedings of a meeting held at the Scottish Health Service Centre, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland. / editors G. Duffy [and others].
Date: [1998?]- Books
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Scotland described: or, a topographical description of all the counties of Scotland: With The Northern & Western Isles Belonging To IT. Containing: AN Account Of The Extent Of Each County; Of Its Mountains, Rivers, Vales, And General Aspect; Of Its Fossils, Woods, And Animals; Of The Rural Industry And The Manners Of Its Peasantry; Of Its Towns, Manufactures, And Trade; Of Its Antiquities, Elegant Mansion-Houses, Pleasure-Grounds; Of The Eminent Men BY Whom IT Has Been Illustrated, &c. By Robert Heron.
Heron, Robert, 1764-1807.Date: 1797