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Are you still nursing?

Julia Martins might get the side-eye for breastfeeding a three-year-old in the UK but, as she explains, examples from history, as well as the cultural norms of Brazil, where she grew up, are firmly on the side of extended nursing.

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Doctor in the house

A house is not always a home – sometimes it’s impermanent, impersonal. But other aspects of the itinerant life can be the source of a sense of home.

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Milk trails round Euston

Where cows once grazed near Wellcome Collection in London, baristas now froth their milk. Esther Leslie uncovers Euston’s dairy-based urban history.

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Why the NHS is worth saving

In this extract from his latest book, ‘Free For All’, Dr Gavin Francis poses challenging questions to be addressed if a health service that’s free for all at the point of use is to remain possible.

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  • A history of nursing : the evolution of nursing systems from the earliest times to the foundation of the first English and American training schools for nurses / by M. Adelaide Nutting ... and Lavinia L. Dock.
  • A history of nursing : the evolution of nursing systems from the earliest times to the foundation of the first English and American training schools for nurses / by M. Adelaide Nutting ... and Lavinia L. Dock.
  • A history of nursing : the evolution of nursing systems from the earliest times to the foundation of the first English and American training schools for nurses / by M. Adelaide Nutting ... and Lavinia L. Dock.
  • A history of nursing : the evolution of nursing systems from the earliest times to the foundation of the first English and American training schools for nurses / by M. Adelaide Nutting ... and Lavinia L. Dock.
  • A history of nursing : the evolution of nursing systems from the earliest times to the foundation of the first English and American training schools for nurses / by M. Adelaide Nutting ... and Lavinia L. Dock.
  • A history of nursing : the evolution of nursing systems from the earliest times to the foundation of the first English and American training schools for nurses / by M. Adelaide Nutting ... and Lavinia L. Dock.
  • Organization of nursing : an account of the Liverpool Nurses' Training School, its foundation, progress, and operation in hospital, district, and private nursing / by a member of the committee of the Home and Training School ; with an introduction and notes by Florence Nightingale.
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