Stories
- Long read
Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
- Article
The food diary and the power of unhealth
Food diaries might appear to present a strictly factual record of dietary choices, but what they don’t include is the more revealing story, as Virginia Hartley suggests.
- Article
The soul in the stomach
A 17th-century physician’s controversial theory about the link between the emotions and the stomach reminds us that we shouldn’t ignore our ‘gut feelings’.
- Article
When you don’t belong, you drink
In the third part of her exploration of belonging, Tanya Perdikou unpicks the addictions that have shaped her past and uncovers the connections that make recovery possible.
Catalogue
- Audio
Heart failure.
Date: 2006- Archives and manuscripts
Working Papers on Cardiac Irregularities Including Atrial Fibrillation, Heart Failure and the Action of Digitalis
McMichael, Sir John, FRCP, FRCPE, FRS (1904-1993) CardiologistDate: 1839-c.1980Reference: PP/JMM/C/3/1Part of: McMichael, Sir John (1904-1993)- Books
Heart failure in the elderly / Bernard Cost.
Cost, Ben (Bernard), 1964-Date: [2000]- Archives and manuscripts
Starling and the Concept of Heart Failure. Circulation, 1960, XXI, No. 3, pp.324-331
Date: 1960Reference: PP/GWP/F/105Part of: Pickering, Sir George White- Books
Heart failure / by Arthur M. Fishberg.
Fishberg, Arthur M. (Arthur Maurice), 1898-Date: 1940