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Mod Br Hist
January 2025
Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK.
Delivered a day after Britain's National Health Service (NHS) reached its 75th year since its opening on the Appointed Day of 5 July 1948, the Pimlott Lecture for 2023 explored the culture of NHS anniversary-making. What can the marking of these anniversaries tell us about changing attitudes towards the service, and indeed, the British state? Here, examining evidence from the media, government archives, and Mass Observation, we argue that NHS anniversaries have long functioned as points of reflection but that their role as moments of national celebration and even communion has come to the fore only recently and culminated in the apparent 'anniversary fever' of 2018. We will explore the reasons behind the growing public fervour, what it can tell us, and the lessons offered by our work on this (still) best-loved of British institutions for historians working on highly politicized objects in 'fevered' times.
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December 2024
Department of Adult Psychiatry, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland.
Background: The 75th anniversary of introducing lithium into modern psychiatry is recognized, attested by the 1949 paper of John Cade. About this event, my editorial in the special 2010 issue of Neuropsychobiology was titled "Lithium: Sixty Years Thereafter." Since then, fifteen more years have brought further information about lithium.
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October 2024
Departments of Cellular & Integrative Physiology, and Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
Objective: In 2024, NIMH is celebrating its 75th anniversary. At the Congressional hearings preceding its initial funding in 1949, witnesses stressed the need for NIMH to carry out clinical and basic research to find the causes and better treatments for severe mental illnesses. Patients with schizophrenia alone were said to occupy one quarter of all hospital beds in the U.
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