Stories
- Article
Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
- Article
The ancient doctors who refused payment
The NHS might only be 70 years old, but the idea of free healthcare goes back to Ancient Greece, when devout doctors provided their services without charge.
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Womb milk and the puzzle of the placenta
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.
- Interview
Refugee health on a pound a day
Two refugees living a hand-to-mouth existence in the UK explain how trauma has affected their health, and how a little kindness is bringing them hope.
Catalogue
- Books
Japanese and Western bioethics : studies in moral diversity / edited by Kazumasa Hoshino.
Date: [1997], ©1997- Books
Sacrifices humains : perspectives croisées et représentations = Human sacrifice : cross-cultural perspectives and representations / édité par / edited by Pierre Bonnechere, Renaud Gagné.
Date: 2013- Books
The perception of the unborn across the cultures of the world / Walburga von Raffler-Engel.
Von Raffler-Engel, Walburga, 1920-2009Date: [1994]- Books
The slow moon climbs : the science, history, and meaning of menopause / Susan P. Mattern.
Mattern, Susan P., 1966-Date: [2019]- Books
Cross-cultural comparisons on surrogacy and egg donation : interdisciplinary perspectives from India, Germany and Israel / Sayani Mitra; Silke Schicktanz; Tulsi Patel, editors.
Date: [2018]