75 years of Our NHS: an excerpt from Andrew Seaton’s new book
Andrew Seaton’s Our NHS, a History of Britain’s Best-Loved Institution explores the full 75-year history of the NHS, from foundation and modernisation to crisis…
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Medical Practitioners and the Gardens They Shaped in the Late Eighteenth Century
The late eighteenth century represented a high point for botanic collecting and garden creation in Britain as new plants and seeds arrived from overseas…
Surviving Plague – an extract from Florence Under Siege
Escape Into Art, Look Through the Lens of History, Seek Certainty in Science … To help us all keep on reading over the coming…
Cuba’s Contribution to Combating COVID-19
In this blogpost, Helen Yaffe, author of, We Are Cuba!: How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World, discusses how the Cuban…
Content Collection | New Scientist Live
New Scientist Live is an award-winning, mind-expanding festival of ideas and discoveries for everyone curious about science and why it matters. From 10th-13th October…
Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City
When last summer John Henderson published Florence Under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City, he little realized how relevant his book would…
Mortuaries, Medicine and Money by Naomi Pfeffer
The existence of for-profit cadaver purveyors is no secret. Yet, it remains a largely invisible issue. Naomi Pfeffer’s thought-provoking work documents the history, politics,…
Why Monoclonal Antibodies (Mabs) are the Future of Medicine
The Lock and Key of Medicine by Lara V. Marks is the first book to tell the extraordinary yet unheralded history of monoclonal antibodies…
Method in Madness: Discovering Prions
Despite initial scepticism from peers and critics alike, neurologist and biochemist Dr. Stanley B. Prusiner has developed a greater and deeper understanding of treating degenerative…