Stories
- Long read
Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
- Article
Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
- Book extract
Why the NHS is worth saving
In this extract from his latest book, ‘Free For All’, Dr Gavin Francis poses challenging questions to be addressed if a health service that’s free for all at the point of use is to remain possible.
- Article
Befriending heavy breathers
Read the fascinating story behind the rare manual that helped volunteers on one of Britain’s first free telephone helplines to deal with masturbating callers.
Catalogue
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A lecture on the teaching of hygiene in schools : given to a branch of the Teachers' Guild of Great Britain and Ireland, at the Froebel Institute, on November 12th, 1908 / by J. Foster Palmer.
Palmer, James Foster.Date: [1908]- Books
Improving patient flow : how two trusts focused on flow to improve the quality of care and use available capacity effectively : learning report.
Garrett, SarahDate: 2013- Books
Findings from The Nation's Diet : an ESRC research programme.
Date: [1997?]- Books
Creative lab / a collaboration between Creative Partnerships London South and the Helen Storey Foundation.
Creative Partnerships London South.Date: [2005]- Books
George Combe (1788-1858) - the pioneer of physiology teaching in British schools / by Jean P. Bremner.
Bremner, Jean P.Date: 1956