Book ID: CBB336963131

Searching for Sully: Our Stories (2017)

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Shaw, Ann (Author)


Self-published by the author


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 247 pp.
Language: English

Sully was a hospital, not a sanatorium, and was the last of several institutions and clinics to be established for the provision, treatment and abolition of TB by the King Edward VII National Memorial Association and it was desbanded after the National Health Service came into effect in 1948. Memory is like buried treasures. Sometimes you discover long forgotten worlds. Here I chronicled life inside Sully, an Art Deco building on the coast near Cardiff, a state-of-the art hospital designed to offer a more humane way of treating those with TB, in contrast to the traditional harsh regimes of sanatoriums based on isolation, and fresh air

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Review Karen Rushton (2019) Review of "Searching for Sully: Our Stories". Social History of Medicine (pp. 212-213). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Venkat, Bharat Jayram
Barna Szamosi
Victoria Bell
Wolters, Christine
Shaw, Ann
Reeves, Carole
Concepts
Tuberculosis
Prevention and control of disease
Public health
Disease and diseases
Hospitals and clinics
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
18th century
21st century
17th century
Places
Germany
Wales
United States
Spain
Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Iowa (U.S.)
Institutions
Red Cross Societies
Catholic University of Ireland (Dublin)
Royal Belfast Academical Institution
National Health Service (Great Britain)
Universidade de Coimbra
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