Stories
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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.
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Revelations of blindness in the Middle Ages
Medieval texts, from Islamic medical treatises to Christian books of miracles, reveal surprisingly varied and complex experiences of blindness. But when medieval scholar Jude Seal experienced visual impairment themselves, they gained an even deeper understanding of the lives they were studying.
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Fees, funding and the NHS
In the 1950s, dramatic political battles over NHS charges brought down a government. But public confidence in the service still grew.
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The making of ‘Quacks’
How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?
Catalogue
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The recent progress of obstetric and gynaecological medicine : an address delivered in the Obstetrical Section of the Academy of Medicine in Ireland / by Thomas More Madden.
Date: 1886- Books
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Finality in surgery : an address delivered in the Surgical Section of the Academy of Medicine in Ireland, at the opening meeting, November 12, 1886 / by Sir William Stokes.
Stokes, Sir William, 1839-1900.Date: 1886- Books
Catalogue of an exhibition of books from Lichfield Cathedral Library on the occasion of a visit by members of The Section of the History of Medicine, The Royal Society of Medicine, 18th June 1994 / [compiled by] Denis Gibbs.
Lichfield Cathedral. Library.Date: 1994- Books
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Art and epigram regarding science and medicine in relation to death : being a reprint of a communication from the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine (Section of the History of Medicine), 1914, Vol. VII, pp. 192-217 : together with an addition on epigram and art in relation to the excessive fear of death / by F. Parkes Weber.
Weber, Frederick Parkes, 1863-1962.Date: 1914- Books
The Royal College of Physicians of London, on the occasion of its recent bombing / by A.P. Cawadias.
Cawadias, A. P. (Alexander Panagioti), 1884-Date: 1957