Stories
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London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
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Coasting to catastrophe
In climate change, everything – and everyone – is connected. The watery process that will gradually cut off the Isle of Thanet from the British mainland has begun, and everyone in the UK needs to pay attention.
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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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Born different
For Chris North, being born intersex in the 1940s meant his many childhood hospital visits, tests and operations were not explained or discussed. As he reveals, doctors encouraged strict secrecy.
Catalogue
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Report of the medical superintendent of the South-Eastern Hospital for the year 1883.
South-Eastern Hospital (London, England)Date: 1884- Books
Report of the medical superintendent of the South-Eastern District Hospital for the year 1882.
South-Eastern District Hospital (London, England)Date: 1883- Books
Report of the medical superintendent of the Deptford Hospital for the year 1880.
Deptford Hospital.Date: 1881- Books
Report of the medical superintendent of the Deptford Hospital for the year 1881.
Deptford Hospital.Date: 1882- Books
Report of the medical superintendent of the Deptford Hospital upon the work of the hospital from April, 1878, to December, 1879.
Deptford Hospital.Date: 1880