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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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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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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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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.

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  • St. Thomas' Hospital, London, England: exterior. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
  • St. Charles Hospital Medical Centre, London, England: exterior. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
  • Charing Cross Hospital, Hammersmith, London, England: under construction. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
  • Guy's Hospital, London, England: a tower block under construction. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
  • Hammersmith Hospital, London, England: the intensive care and dialysis unit: exterior. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
  • St. Thomas' Hospital, London, England: exterior view showing scaffolding on the building and the River Thames in the foreground. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: the south-west corner of the Gibbs courtyard, with the dome of St Paul's Cathedral seen behind. Wood engraving.
  • Seamen's Hospital Society [letter head] : ("Dreadnought"), Greenwich, S.E. 10.
  • Mildmay : transforming AIDS care / Mildmay Mission Hospital.
  • Mildmay : transforming AIDS care / Mildmay Mission Hospital.
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