Health & Medicine through Time
Attitudes to sickness and health have played a key role across different civilisations and throughout time. The emphasis placed by the ancient societies of Egypt and Greece on the human body are discussed under this theme and the impact those beliefs had on society as it developed. Changes in welfare and hygiene are explored as are attitudes to cleanliness and the eradication of disease. The radical changes to the understanding, experimentation and application of medicine from the nineteenth century to today are an important part of this theme and are explored here.
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The right to fight: women’s boxing in Britain
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White City: the world’s first Olympic Stadium
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Real Lives: Beatrice Alexander
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Vera Ignatievna Giedroyc: her missions of mercy, 1899–1932
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Real Lives: Anna Wessels Williams (1863–1954)
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Old age care in the time of crisis: London in the sixteenth century
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Out and About in South London
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The death of a hero: Vice-Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson
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Florence Nightingale and epidemics
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Real Lives: Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorial: Edward George Keeling
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The experience of Bilston in the cholera epidemic of 1831–32
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Disease and healthcare on the Isle of Man
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Eyam: the plague village 1665-66
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Glowing in the Dark
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The NHS: Britain’s National Health Service, 1948-2020
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Black Death to global pandemic: London then and now
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Losing sight of the glory: five centuries of combat surgery
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Havelock Hall: the East India Company college gymnasium at Addiscombe
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English first-aid organisations and the Provisional IRA mainland bombing campaign of 1974
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The development of the Department of Health
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