Stories
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Getting under the skin
Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
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Medics and the bomb
Would a nuclear attack on the UK overwhelm the NHS? At the height of the Cold War, despite government optimism, medics predicted doom.
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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.
Catalogue
- Books
The implications of increased life expectancy for family and social life / Arthur E. Imhof ; translated by Elizabeth Rushden.
Imhof, Arthur Erwin.Date: 1992- Journals
- Online
History of science
Date: 1962-- Books
- Online
On the sciences of medicine and surgery.
Parker, William.Date: 1857- Books
Turquet de Mayerne as baroque physician : the art of medical portraiture / Brian Nance.
Nance, Brian.Date: 2001- Books
- Online
Managing diabetes, managing medicine : chronic disease and clinical bureaucracy in post-war Britain / Martin D Moore.
Moore, Martin D.Date: 2019