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The give and take of caring
Kate Mosse argues that how we define ‘care’ matters, and explores the reciprocity of caring and being cared for.
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The ‘undesirable epileptic’
Abused in her marriage for being 'a sick woman', Aparna Nair looked to history to make sense of the response to her epilepsy. She discovered how centuries of fear and discrimination were often endorsed by science and legislation.
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The island of unclaimed bodies
In New York, those who live and die on the extreme edges of society are buried on an isolated island, often forgotten and unmourned. But recent legal changes aim to reduce stigma and restore their dignity.
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The joys and failures of audio description
Audio description enhances the experience of watching a film or TV show for people with a visual impairment, but it's not widely available in the UK. Alex Lee explains why.
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The english physician enlarged with three hundred and sixty-nine medicines, made of English herbs, that were not in any impression until this. Being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation, containing a complete Method of Physic, whereby a Man may preserve his Body in Health, or cure himself, being Sick, for Three pence Charge, with such Things only as grow in England, they being most fit for English Bodies. Herein is also shewed, 1. The Way of making Plaisters, Ointments, Oils, Poultices, Syrups, Decoctions, Juleps, or Waters of all Sorts of Physical Herbs, that you may have them ready for your Use at all Times of the Year. - 2. What Planet governeth every Herb or Tree (used in Physic) that gorweth in England. 3. The Time of gathering all Herbs, both Vulgarly and Astrologically. - 4. The Way of drying and keeping the Herbs all the Year. - 5. The Way of keeping their Juice ready for Use at all Time. - 6. The Way of making and keeping all Kinds of Useful Compounds made of Herbs. - 7. The Way of mixing Medicines according to the Cause and Mixture of the Disease and Part of the Body afflicted. By Nich. Culpepper. Gent. Student in Physic and Astrology.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]- Journals
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The International and comparative law quarterly
Date: 1952-- Archives and manuscripts
Crichton Royal Institution Acts of Parliament - Treasurer
Date: 1840-1890Reference: DGH1/2/6/3Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
Birth Control Trust / Birth Control Campaign series blurb
Date: 1985 - 1996Reference: PP/WDS/B.5Part of: Wendy Savage: archives (1935-)- Archives and manuscripts
Crichton Royal Institution Acts of Parliament
Date: 1840-1890Reference: DGH1/2/6/4Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital