Stories
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Are you still nursing?
Julia Martins might get the side-eye for breastfeeding a three-year-old in the UK but, as she explains, examples from history, as well as the cultural norms of Brazil, where she grew up, are firmly on the side of extended nursing.
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The work of wet-nursing
Many of us know that in the past, babies were sometimes nourished by wet-nurses. But, perhaps surprisingly, the practice continues today – and the milk recipients are not only babies.
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NHS strikes and the decade of discontent
When the social unrest of the 1970s spread to the NHS, dissatisfied staff challenged the status quo for the first time in quarter of a century.
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A history of gestation outside the body
It’s been over 400 years since a Swiss alchemist theorised that foetuses could develop outside the womb. Claire Horn examines incubator technology past and present, and explores the possibilities recent prototypes might bring.
Catalogue
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Hospitals in Luton and Dunstable : an overview / [Margaret R. Currie].
Currie, Margaret, 1936-Date: 1984-1985- Archives and manuscripts
Chair's Correspondence, Jul 2012 - Nov 2012
London Museums of Health and MedicineDate: 03 Jul 2012-29 Nov 2012Reference: SA/LMH/B/2/2Part of: London Museums of Health and Medicine archives- Books
Changes in hospital function and nursing / Junko Kusakari.
Kusakari, Junko.Date: 1989- Student dissertations
The histories of wet-nursing and surrogate motherhood compared - did history repeat itself ? / a dissertation by Vinnie Sodhi.
Sodhi, Vinnie.Date: 1990- Books
Australia's first nursing research unit : a milestone in the history of Australian health - Townsville, 1933 / John Wilson.
Wilson, John R.Date: 1994