Stories
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How Mills & Boon made medicine romantic
‘Doctor-nurse’ romances are a hugely popular trope. Agnes Arnold-Forster explores their history and surprisingly nuanced depictions of womanhood, hospitals and the welfare state.
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Eugenics and the welfare state
Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.
- Book extract
Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
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The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
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State medicine : resolutions of the General Medical Council, adopted July 9 and July 12, 1869; together with the second report and appendix of the Committee on State Medicine, appointed June 27, 1868. July 13, 1869.
General Medical Council.Date: 1869- Books
State medicine in Great Britain / Christopher Hamlin.
Hamlin, Christopher, 1951-- Archives and manuscripts
College of State Medicine
Date: 1886-1894Reference: SA/LIS/D.1-7Part of: Lister Institute- Books
The Ohio State University College of Medicine. Volume III, 1998 / George W. Paulson.
Paulson, George W., 1930-Date: 1998- Archives and manuscripts
College of State Medicine Council Minutes
Date: 10 Dec 1886-10 Nov 1893Reference: SA/LIS/A.1Part of: Lister Institute