Stories
- Article
NHS Blue: the colour of universal healthcare
The 1980s and 1990s saw ideas from the world of business infiltrating the NHS, including the introduction of an internal market, followed by a corporate branding exercise.
- Article
Homes for the hives of industry
By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.
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In search of the ‘nature cure’
Under the competing pressures of modern life, many of us succumb to mental ill health. Samantha Walton explores why so-called ‘nature cures’ don’t help, and how the living world can actually help us.
- Book extract
Of incubators, orchids and artificial wombs
In this extract from Claire Horn’s new book, ‘Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth’, she traces the development of the artificial womb, soon to become a reality.
Catalogue
- Books
A brief report on public health administration in Japan, 1966 : (January 1965 - August 1966) ; with pertinent informations on social welfare and insurance programme.
Date: 1966- Books
A brief report on public health administration in Japan, 1970 : (January 1969 - September 1970) ; with pertinent information on social welfare and insurance programme.
Date: 1970- Books
Public health : proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on the Comparative History of Medicine - East and West, October 26th-November 1st, 1980, Susono-shi, Shizuoka, Japan / edited by Teizo Ogawa.
Date: [1981], ©1981
- Pictures
- Online
A message about AIDS and HIV testing in Japanese black script bordered with vertical gold edges. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
Date: [1996?]Reference: 678544i
- Pictures
- Online
A naked figure with a leaf hair garland and transparent shawl pulls down the 's' of the word 'AIDS representing an advertisement for 'Action for AIDS' in Japan. Colour lithograph by Kan, ca. 1996.
Date: [1996?]Reference: 678547i