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Special Collections: Disability History Resources

Medicine and Healthcare

Nursing Ethics Heritage Collection (EUL MS 472/NEHC)

Collection of books and other printed matter, papers and AV material collected, curated and arranged by Professor Marsha Fowler on the subject of ethics within the nursing profession, with the aim of providing a critical mass of materials to support research and scholarship in this area.


Sections on Health and Nursing in the Hypatia Collection (Classmarks: Hypatia/Hea and Hypatia/Nur)

The Hypatia Collection includes a wide range of materials relating to medicine and health.


Individual items in our book collections include: 

(Content advice: some of books below contain offensive terms or terms that have changed meaning over time)

  • Mental Health Care in Crisis (1989) edited by Anny Brackx and Catherine Grimshaw (Hypatia HEA/BRA)
  • The Golden Cage: The Enigma of Anorexia Nervosa (1978) by Hilde Bruch (Hypatia HEA/BRU)
  • On our own: patient-controlled alternatives to the mental health system (1988) by Judi Chamberlin (Hypatia HEA/CHA)
  • Women and Madness (1972 and 1989 edition) by Phyllis Chesler (Hypatia CRIT/CHE)
  • Disabled Citizens (1951) by Joan Simeon Clarke (Hypatia HEA/CLA)
  • Women and HIV/AIDS: a bibliography (1993) by Glasgow Women's Library (Hypatia HEA/ILE/Pamphlet)
  • Cervical Cancer and How to Stop Worrying About It (1988) by Judith Harvey, Sue Mack and Julian Woolfson (Hypatia HEA/HAR)
  • Return to mobility: Exercises for Stroke Patients (1978) by Margaret Hawker (Hypatia HEA/HAW)
  • A Gentle Way with Cancer: what every cancer patient should know about the therapies which can influence the fight for recovery (1983) by Brenda Kidman (Hypatia HEA/KID)
  • The Anorexic Experience (1988) by Marilyn Lawrence (Hypatia HEA/LAW)
  • The challenge of a handicap (c 1980s) by G.H. Marshall (Hypatia HEA/MAR/X)
  • The management of handicapped children (c 1980s) by G H Marshall (Hypatia HEA/MAR/X)
  • Normansfield, 1868-1968 [Note: unpublished typescript, c 1968, concerning The Normansfield Hospital, a private home in Teddington for people with developmental and intellectual disabilities, which was founded by by John Langdon Down, after whom Down syndrome was named] (Brooks 362.30942 NOR/Pamphlet)
  • Parkinson's Disease, day-to-day (1977) by the Parkinson's Disease Society (Betjeman Library 4293)
  • Mental Handicap Nursing and Care (1980) by Victoria Shennan (Hypatia HEA/SHE)
  • A Cry for health: poverty and disability in the Third World (1983) edited by Oliver Shirley (Hypatia HEA/CRY)
  • Looking after people with late HIV disease (1990) by Jan Welch and Jenny Newbury (Hypatia HEA/WEL/Pamphlet)  
  • The education of the socially handicapped child (1973) by Paul Widlake and Lorna Bell (Hypatia EDU/WID)

Archival items relating to medical aid and medicine in two boxes of papers relating to Kurdish human rights issues from the Omar Sheikhmous collection of Kurdish Research (EUL MS 403/8/2/12)

A folder of papers relating to medicine and medical aid (1967-1995). Further information can be found on the archives catalogue under the reference number: EUL MS 403/8/2/12

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