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Womb milk and the puzzle of the placenta
| Joanna Wolfarth
A human baby needs milk to survive – and this holds true even before it’s born. Joanna Wolfarth explores “womb milk”, as well as ancient and modern ideas about the placenta.
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Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
| Mark Honigsbaum
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
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- Book extract
Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
| Aarathi Prasad
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.