Stories
- Article
London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
- Article
Getting under the skin
Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.
- Article
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.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
Catalogue
- Pictures
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, London: a model of the scheme. Process print, 1935.
Date: 1935Reference: 552406iPart of: Architecture illustrated.- Pictures
Hospitals in England and Wales: buildings, equipment and staff. Photographs, 194-.
Date: [between 1940 and 1949?]Reference: 663840i- Books
Some women of Sindh : in home and hospital / by R.H. Western ; illustrated by A.M. Elverson.
Western, Ruth Helen.Date: [1928]- Books
Critical Approaches to the History of Western Herbal Medicine : From Classical Antiquity to the Early Modern Period / edited by Susan Francia and Anne Stobart.
Date: 2014- Books
Charity performance in aid of St. Mary's Hospital Guild of Friends : the Great Western Railway (London) Dramatic Society presents The sacred flame by W. Somerset Maugham, 14th April, 1955.
Date: 1955