Stories
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Why gene editing can never eliminate disability
In a world where DNA testing and gene editing offer ways to eliminate certain disabilities, Jaipreet Virdi explores a more accepting and inclusive approach.
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Mistakes and perfect medicine
This week our anonymous GP reflects on how a mistake made in a busy, stressful environment could have had serious consequences.
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Why even plastic surgery can’t hide you from facial recognition
Once upon a time, plastic surgery allowed a few notorious criminals to evade the law. But today, sophisticated facial-recognition technology has turned dreams of anonymity to dust.
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Interpreting the Ayurvedic Man
A British Sign Language video is the latest interpretation of an unique 18th-century Nepali painting about Ayurvedic medicine.
Catalogue
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Medication errors : lessons for education and healthcare / Robert Naylor.
Naylor, Robert John, 1943-Date: [2002], ©2002- Books
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Water-cure for the million : the processes of water-cure explained, popular errors exposed, hygienic and drug-medication contrasted : rules for bathing, dieting, exercising, etc., recipes for cooking, directions for home-treatment, remarkable cases to illustrate, etc. / by R.T. Trall.
Trall, R. T. (Russell Thacher), 1812-1877.Date: 1860- Books
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Medical, philosophical, and vulgar errors, of various kinds, considered and refuted / by John Jones.
Date: 1797- Books
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The traditional errors of surgery : the presidential address, at the thirty-ninth annual session of the Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania / by R.J. Levis.
Levis, R. J. (Richard Joseph), 1827-1890.Date: 1888- Books
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'Fitting glasses,' the diagnosis of errors in refraction, the influence of eyestrain, etc. / by George M. Gould.
Gould, George Milbrey, 1848-1922.Date: 1906