Stories
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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean
Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.
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How slums make people sick
A newly gentrified corner of Bermondsey leaves little clue to its less salubrious history. But a few intrepid writers recorded the details of existence in one of London’s most squalid slums.
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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?
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The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
Catalogue
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Industrial lung diseases of iron and steel foundry workers / [by A.I.G. McLaughlin and others].
Date: 1950- Books
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The mortality, sufferings and diseases of grinders / by G. Calvert Holland. Part II, Pen-blade grinders.
Holland, G. C. (George Calvert), 1801-1865.Date: 1842- Books
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On the prevention and treatment of the Sheffield grinders' disease / by J.C. Hall.
Hall, John Charles, 1816-1876.Date: 1857- Books
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The trades of Sheffield as influencing life and health, more particularly file cutters and grinders : read before the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, October 5th, 1865 / by Dr. J.C. Hall.
Hall, John Charles, 1816-1876.Date: [1865?]- Books
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The trades of Sheffield as influencing life and health, more particularly file cutters and grinders : read before the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, October 5th, 1865 / by Dr. J.C. Hall.
Hall, John Charles, 1816-1876.Date: [1865?]