Stories
- Article
The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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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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The blight of the ballooning blood vessels
In 1817 an emergency operation on a London porter was hailed a ‘success’ despite the patient’s swift demise. Find out how this case became a landmark in vascular surgery.
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How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory
A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.
Catalogue
- Journals
- Online
American journal of infection control
Date: 1980-- Journals
- Online
The Journal of hospital infection
Date: 1980-- Ephemera
- Online
Prévention du cancer du col de l'utérus : vaccinée ou non, je fais le dépistage / Groupe SOS, ARCAT.
Date: 2012- Journals
- Online
Krankenhaus-Hygiene + Infektionsverhütung
Date: 1979-- Ephemera
Factsheet: HPV vaccine / Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust.
Date: [2010?]