Stories
- Book extract
Of incubators, orchids and artificial wombs
In this extract from Claire Horn’s new book, ‘Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth’, she traces the development of the artificial womb, soon to become a reality.
- Article
Born in the NHS
Despite underfunding, strikes and scandals, the first two decades of the 2000s has seen the British people’s love of and loyalty to the NHS soar.
- Long read
The ambivalence of air
Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.
- Article
The problem of the punctured heart
During World War II a young American surgeon working in England perfected shrapnel-removal techniques that saved dozens of lives. Discover how one case sealed his reputation as the founder of cardiac surgery.
Catalogue
- Books
Report of a Committee, appointed by the Secretary of State for War, to enquire into the organization of the Army Hospital Corps, hospital management and nursing in the field, and the sea transport of sick and wounded : together with minutes of evidence, appendix, and index.
Great Britain. Army Hospital Services Inquiry Committee.Date: 1883- Books
The early history of surgery in Great Britain : its organization and development / by G. Parker.
Parker, George.Date: 1920- Books
Merchant networks in the early modern world / edited by Sanjay Subrahmanyam.
Date: 1996- Books
Dietary fibre in the management of the diabetic : proceedings of the British Diabetic Association symposium held in London, UK, on 1 June 1984.
Date: [1984]- Books
Health, well-being, and social inclusion : therapeutic horticulture in the UK / Joe Sempik, Jo Aldridge, and Saul Becker.
Sempik, JoeDate: 2005