Stories
- In pictures
A history of art in hospitals
Art historian Anne Wallentine examines art in hospital settings – from its Christian devotional origins to its healing role in modern healthcare buildings.
- In pictures
The history of sanatoriums and surveillance
The sanatorium treatment for tuberculosis was a curious combination of sunshine, fresh air, exercise and constant surveillance.
- 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
Bubbles of history
Since the 1960s, scientists have been able to study the air from past centuries by analysing particles in Arctic ice samples. But as the polar ice melts, the future of this research is changing.
Catalogue
- Books
Hospitals, medical care and social policy in the French Revolution / George Rosen.
Rosen, George, 1910-1977Date: 1974- Books
The public-private health care state : essays on the history of American health care policy / Rosemary Stevens.
Stevens, Rosemary, 1935-Date: [2007], ©2007- Books
Post-war smoking policy in the UK and the redefinition of public health / Virginia Berridge.
Berridge, Virginia.Date: [2003]- Books
A history of apprenticeship nurse training in Ireland / Gerard M. Fealy.
Fealy, Gerard M.Date: 2006- Books
Burdens of war : creating the United States veterans health system / Jessica L. Adler.
Adler, Jessica L., 1978-Date: 2017