Stories
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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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Medics, migration and the NHS
In the 1960s the NHS became Britain’s biggest employer. So to help fill all those jobs, the government brought in thousands of workers from abroad.
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Coleridge’s hypochondria
An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.
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Doctor in the house
A house is not always a home – sometimes it’s impermanent, impersonal. But other aspects of the itinerant life can be the source of a sense of home.
Catalogue
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Part-time social work : a study of opportunities for the employment of trained social workers.
National Council of Social Service.Date: 1965- Archives and manuscripts
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Local Medical Committees: employment of women doctors part time
Date: 1966Reference: SA/MWF/G.27Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Books
Part-time working in general practice / Isobel Allen.
Allen, Isobel (Health care researcher)Date: [1992], ©1992- Books
Job sharing & part-time work in general practice.
Women in Medicine.Date: 1992- Books
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The pleasure of a surplus income : part-time work, gender politics, and social change in West Germany, 1955-1969 / Christine von Oertzen ; translated from the German by Pamela Selwyn.
Oertzen, Christine vonDate: 2007