Stories
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Remote diagnosis from wee to the Web
Medical practice might have moved on from when patients posted flasks of their urine for doctors to taste, but telehealth today keeps up the tradition of remote diagnosis – to our possible detriment.
- Long read
Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
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The healing power of the physic garden
Having experienced the healing power of plants and gardens, Iona Glen goes in search of present-day “physic gardens” and their origins in history.
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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India
Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.
Catalogue
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Summaries, reports and details of delegates : sixth International Congress of Rural Medicine, Churchill College, Cambridge, September 21-27, 1975.
International Congress of Rural Medicine 1975 : Cambridge, England)Date: [1976?]- Archives and manuscripts
Volume 61. 'The Development of Rural Medicine C. 1970 - C. 2000'
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2010 - 2017Reference: GC/253/A/61Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Books
Medicine : non-communicable diseases in adults / N.W. Nicholson.
Nicholson, N. W.Date: [1985]- Books
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Rural depopulation / by G. B. Longstaff.
Longstaff, George Blundell, 1849-1921.Date: 1893- Archives and manuscripts
Health Authority: Consultant, Public Health Medicine
Date: 29 Sep 1999Reference: GC/280/7Part of: 'Understanding Health Variations and Policy Variations'