Stories
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The case of the cancerous stomach
Steak and schnitzel were on the menu again after Theodor Billroth successfully excised a woman’s stomach cancer in 1881. Remarkably, today’s surgeons still perform the same procedure, with slight modifications.
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Air of threat
Novelist Chloe Aridjis vividly describes the suffocating atmosphere of Mexico City, as a combination of topography, crowded neighbourhoods, and reckless political diktats create a downward spiral.
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Silent threat
As Vanessa Peterson recovered from a frighteningly serious illness, she wondered whether it was linked to air quality. For many communities, she found, pollution is a political issue.
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Coleridge’s hypochondria
An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.
Catalogue
- Books
Lung cancer / British Lung Foundation.
Date: 2009- Books
Lung cancer / British Lung Foundation.
Date: 2008- Archives and manuscripts
Lung cancer
Date: May 1985Reference: SA/BAC/G/4/8Part of: BACUP (British Association of Cancer United Patients and their families and friends)- Journals
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Lung cancer
Date: 1985-- Books
Lung cancer / edited by William Duncan.
Date: 1984