Topic
Hospitals research, explained
8 open-access hospitals studies, each with a flashcard deck and a quiz.
- What Queen Square notes show about shell shock
Linden and Jones analyse 462 National Hospital case files and find motor-heavy “functional” syndromes, few psychogenic seizures versus Germany, and almost no malingering labels.
- What did TB patients write to hospital almoners?
Twentieth-century letters between Brompton Hospital almoners and TB sanatorium patients show gratitude as a practice of relational care, not just a psychology slogan.
- Doctors and managers in Manchester NHS history
Snow finds strong doctor–administrator working relations in teaching hospitals before 1983, and later mutual familiarisation under general management and trusts.
- Glasgow teamwork made scientific medicine
Hull revisits the ‘Glasgow School’ to show clinic–lab teamwork at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, not a backward clinic-versus-laboratory stalemate.
- Why did Finland crowdfund a children’s hospital?
The 2018 NCH opening ended a nationwide charity campaign sparked by outrage at the old Lastenklinikka and politicians’ failure to prioritise paediatric care — charity resurgent in a Nordic post-welfare state.
- How did early modern patients recover?
Newton reconstructs English ideas of recovery (c.1580–1720): Nature concocted and expelled bad humours, and treatments were meant to copy her work.
- How were nurses taught wound sepsis?
Jones and colleagues show that antiseptic and aseptic teaching for nurses varied by hospital, instructor personality, and the slow rise of classroom preliminary training.
- Alienists defend judgement in Lima’s asylum
In late-nineteenth-century Lima, a small alienist staff fought nuns’ administrative control and families’ incomplete certificates.