Stories
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Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
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Providing care across languages
When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.
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Can isolation lead to manipulation?
Military-funded researchers wanted to know if isolation techniques could facilitate brainwashing. One neuroscientist suggested that it might improve our own control over our minds.
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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
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Modern concepts in brain tumor therapy : laboratory and clinical investigations [a conference held in Atlanta, Georgia, February 26-28, 1976 sponsored by Clinical Investigation Branch and the Cancer Clinical Investigations Review Committee, Division of Cancer Treatment, National Cancer Institute ; chairman, Audrey E. Evans.
Date: 1977- Books
International conference on avian tumor viruses : sponsored by National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland and Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina / editor Joseph W. Beard.
International Conference on Avian Tumor Viruses (1964 : Duke University)Date: [1964]
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Proceedings of the First National Cancer Conference / American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute of the U.S. Public Health Serivce, Federal Security Agency.
National Cancer Conference 1949)Date: 1949- Books
Workshop on Patterns of Failure After Cancer Treatment / chairman, James D. Cox ; sponsoring organizations, National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Treatment, Radiation Research Program [and others].
Workshop on Patterns of Failure after Cancer Treatment (1982 : Milwaukee, Wis.)Date: [1983]- Journals
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute : JNCI.