Stories
- Article
Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high
The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.
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Is your job bad for your teeth?
Some surprising occupations pose hidden risks to dental health. Could your ivories be in particular peril?
- Book extract
Renaissance women and their killer cosmetics
In this extract from ‘How to be a Renaissance Woman’, Jill Burke delves into a complex world of beauty products, poison and patriarchy – and reveals the impossible contradictions of femininity faced by 16th-century women.
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Plant portraits
The beautiful and mysterious illustrations in medieval herbals convey a wealth of knowledge about the plants they portray.
Catalogue
- Books
General COSHH ACOP (control of substances hazardous to health) and Carcinogens ACOP (control of carcinogenic substances) and Biological agents ACOP (control of biological agents) : Control of substances hazardous to health regulations 1999 : approved codes of practice / Health and Safety Commission.
Great Britain. Health and Safety Commission.Date: 1999- Books
Prudent practices for handling hazardous chemicals in laboratories / Committee on Hazardous Substances in the Laboratory, Assembly of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, National Research Council.
Assembly of Mathematical and Physical Sciences (U.S.). Committee on Hazardous Substances in the Laboratory.Date: 1981
- Pictures
- Online
Two men holding dangerous substances as if they were string-puppets (marionettes); representing the need for care with hazardous substances in the workplace. Colour lithograph for the Centrum Gezondeidsbevordering op de Werkplek, 200-.
Date: [between 2000 and 2009?]Reference: 2066388i- Books
Handbook of carcinogens and hazardous substances : chemical and trace analysis / edited by Malcolm C. Bowman.
Date: [1982], ©1982- Pictures
A child playing in a poppy-field, and a worker disposing safely of a toxic substance, representing the need to consider the environment when dealing with hazardous industrial substances. Colour lithograph for the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Metall-Berufsgenossenschaften, 1997.
Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Metall-Berufsgenossenschaften.Date: [19]97Reference: 768161i