Stories
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The father of handwashing
Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.
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Mapping the body
These intricate anatomical drawings show how Ayurveda practitioners have explored the human body and how it works.
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How to stay together while keeping apart
Vivek Murthy explores how we can keep physically distant while staying emotionally connected.
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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.
Catalogue
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Cyril Astley Clarke / Charles Clarke.
Clarke, Charles.Date: 2001- Books
HIV testing for patients attending general medical services : national guidelines.
Date: [2005]- Books
Consultant physicians working with patients : the duties, responsibilities and practice of physicians in general medicine and the specialties.
Royal College of Physicians of London.Date: [2005], ©2005- Books
Neuroses in general practice : being the second John Matheson Shaw lecture of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, delivered in the hall of the College on November 11th, 1955 / by C.A.H. Watts.
Watts, C. A. H. (C. Arthur H.)Date: 1956- Archives and manuscripts
Report of the Committee on General Practice, for Central Health Services Council
Date: 1951-1952Reference: PP/CMW/B.9/1/4Part of: Lord Moran (Charles McMoran Wilson) (1882-1977): archives