Stories from the frontline of the NHS When Cathy gave birth to her baby son, almost everything that could go wrong, did. She contracted sepsis on the labour ward- and the nurses nearly failed to spot... READ MORE
Organising care around patients
Stories from the frontline of the NHS When Cathy gave birth to her baby son, almost everything that could go wrong, did. She contracted sepsis on the labour ward- and the nurses nearly failed to spot... READ MORE
Bonnie Evans discusses her new book ‘The metamorphosis of autism’. READ MORE
By Dr Fay Bound Alberti The UK is now in lockdown in an attempt to curb the spread of Coronavirus or Covid-19. Behaviours that previously went without comment, from proximity to others in a social... READ MORE
Julian M. Simpson, author of Migrant architects of the NHS Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) turns 70 on July 5, 2018. It is traditionally seen as a ‘typically British’ institution.... READ MORE
1. What book in this field has inspired you the most? Melissa Miles, The Burning Mirror: Photography in an Ambivalent Light (North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2008). This book is... READ MORE
What book in this field has inspired you the most? Lester Little’s Religious Poverty and the Profit Economy in Medieval Europe. Did your research take you to any unexpected places? I started out... READ MORE
What book in this field has inspired you the most? I was inspired somewhat by David Wootton’s Bad Medicine, which seemed to me to consider the failings of medicine from the wrong angle; for me it... READ MORE
Stephen Snelders Q and A – Leprosy and Colonialism What book in this field has inspired you the most? Inspiration comes from a combination of Roy Porter’s Doing Medical History from... READ MORE
Launching Payment and Philanthropy By George Campbell Gosling It made sense for the Voluntary Action History Society to host the launch of Payment and Philanthropy in British Healthcare,... READ MORE
By George Campbell Gosling What book in this field has inspired you the most? The book which influenced the way I write history the most is probably not a medical history book, but a pretty... READ MORE