Stories
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Medics, migration and the NHS
In the 1960s the NHS became Britain’s biggest employer. So to help fill all those jobs, the government brought in thousands of workers from abroad.
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The birth of Britain's National Health Service
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
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The case of the cancerous stomach
Steak and schnitzel were on the menu again after Theodor Billroth successfully excised a woman’s stomach cancer in 1881. Remarkably, today’s surgeons still perform the same procedure, with slight modifications.
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The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria
A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Dame Albertine Winner, 'The Changing Numbers of Women Students', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, Vol 68, Aug 1975
Date: 1975Reference: SA/MWF/C.8/9Part of: Medical Women's Federation
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Medical women : a thesis and a history / by Sophia Jex-Blake.
Jex-Blake, Sophia, 1840-1912.Date: 1886- Archives and manuscripts
Fordyce, George (1736-1802)
Fordyce, George, 1736-1802.Date: 18th century - 19th centuryReference: MS.2395- Books
The afterlife of the Leiden anatomical collections : hands on, hands off / by Hieke Huistra.
Huistra, Hieke, 1982-Date: 2019
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History of circumcision, from the earliest times to the present : moral and physical reasons for its performance, with a history of eunuchism, hermaphrodism, etc., and of the different operations practiced upon the prepuce / by P.C. Remondino.
Date: 1891