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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Winter blues and the story of SAD
In ‘Chasing the Sun‘ Linda Geddes reveals why for some people, winter is literally depressing, showing how we first came to recognise seasonal affective disorder (SAD).
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Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs
The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.
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In search of the ‘nature cure’
Under the competing pressures of modern life, many of us succumb to mental ill health. Samantha Walton explores why so-called ‘nature cures’ don’t help, and how the living world can actually help us.
Catalogue
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Physiological response attending exposure to vapors of methyl bromide, methyl chloride, ethyl bromide and ethyl chloride : prepared from data contained in the report of the Bureau of Mines to the National Research Council and the Dow Chemical Company / by R.R. Sayers [and others].
Date: 1929- Books
Nuclear accidents : harmonization of the public health response report on a WHO meeting, Geneva, 10-13 November 1987.
Date: [1989], ©1989- Books
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Government response to the House of Commons Health Committee report on patient and public involvement in the NHS : seventh report, Session 2002-03 / presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Health by Command of Her Majesty, October 2003.
Great Britain. Department of Health.Date: 2003- Books
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Rapid medical countermeasure response to infectious diseases : enabling sustainable capabilities through ongoing public- and private-sector partnerships : workshop summary / Theresa Wizemann, Megan Reeve Snair, and Jack Herrmann, rapporteurs ; Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events ; Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation ; Forum on Microbial Threats, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Board on Global Health, Institute of Medicine, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine.
Wizemann, Theresa M.Date: [2016]- Books
The BSE inquiry : return to an order of the Honourable House of Commons dated October 2000 for the report, evidence and supporting papers of the inquiry into the emergence and identification of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) and the action taken in response to it up to 20 March 1996 / Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, Mrs June Bridgeman CB, Professor Malcolm Ferguson-Smith FRS.
Phillips of Worth Matravers, Nicholas Addison Phillips, Baron, 1938-Date: 2000