Stories
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The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
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The birth of Britain's National Health Service
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
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Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs
The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.
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A brief history of ventilation
As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.
Catalogue
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Social class and mental illness in Northern Europe / edited by Petteri Pietikäinen and Jesper Vaczy Kragh.
Date: 2020- Books
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A history of botany in the United Kingdom from the earliest times to the end of the 19th century / by J. Reynolds Green.
Date: 1914- Books
Arztpraxen im Vergleich : 18. - 20. Jahrhundert / Elisabeth Dietrich-Daum [and others] (Hrsg.).
Date: 2008- Books
Self reliance and the changing physician-patient relationship in nineteenth and twentieth century America / Todd L. Savitt.
Savitt, Todd Lee, 1943-Date: 1995- Pictures
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A fashionable lady asking her doctor what ailments he can invent for her - so that she convince her husband to take her to Cannes. Reproduction of a drawing after B. Prance, 1927.
Prance, Bertram, 1889-Date: 1927Reference: 15478i