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Making sunstroke insanity

Medical historian Dr Kristin Hussey takes a closer look at sunstroke and mental illness, and how, in the late 19th century, they connected at the crossroads of colonial science and the idea of whiteness.

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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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Epidemic threats and racist legacies

Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.

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Yoga gets physical

Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.

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  • Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps.
  • Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps.
  • Painting: "Royal Army Medical Corps on Battlefield", WWI
  • WWI: drawing of Royal Army Medical Corps, by F. Matania
  • The great advance of the Royal Army Medical Corps since the South African War.
  • The great advance of the Royal Army Medical Corps since the South African War.
  • The army looks to you to look after the army : join QARANC, Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps / Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps.
  • A sergeant in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, 1918.
  • In arduis fidelis : with best wishes for Christmas and the new year from / Royal Army Medical Corps.
  • In arduis fidelis : with best wishes for Christmas and the new year from / Royal Army Medical Corps.
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