Stories
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Social isolation and the search for sanctuary
Threatened with deportation, Furaha Asani turned to her church for support. Met with silence and disinterest, she walked away, but argues that churches should do much more for migrants.
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Thalidomide, a bitter pill
Hear from some of the women who took the drug thalidomide over sixty years ago about the fear, isolation and grief that they experienced as the appalling pharmaceutical scandal unfolded around them.
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The case of the cancerous stomach
Steak and schnitzel were on the menu again after Theodor Billroth successfully excised a woman’s stomach cancer in 1881. Remarkably, today’s surgeons still perform the same procedure, with slight modifications.
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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.
Catalogue
- Books
Maritime quarantine administration / Commonwealth of Australia, Quarantine Service.
Date: 1919- Books
- Online
The Associated Out-Patients Clinics of the City of New York : a social force / by E.H. Lewinski-Corwin.
Corwin, E. H. L. (Edward Henry Lewinski), 1885-1953.Date: 1913- Archives and manuscripts
Smith, T & H - 'Somers'
Date: 1944-1986Reference: PP/MLV/C/19/14Part of: Vogt, Dr Marthe Louise (1903-2003)- Archives and manuscripts
Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
Wellcome Trust; 1936-Date: 1910-2022Reference: WT- Archives and manuscripts
Pappworth, Maurice
Pappworth, Maurice, 1910-1994.Date: 1931-1994Reference: PP/MHP