Stories
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London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
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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.
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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
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Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, London: a model of the scheme. Process print, 1935.
Date: 1935Reference: 552406iPart of: Architecture illustrated.- Books
Some women of Sindh : in home and hospital / by R.H. Western ; illustrated by A.M. Elverson.
Western, Ruth Helen.Date: [1928]- 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- Books
The hospital services of Western Europe : report of the Second Western European Conference, April 1964, held at the Hospital Administrative Staff College.
Western European Conference on the Hospital Services of Western Europe 1964 : London, England)Date: [1965], ©1965- Journals
Annual report and record of the charity / St. Marylebone & Western General Dispensary.
St. Marylebone & Western General Dispensary (London, England)