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Cowpox, Covid-19 and Jenner’s vaccination legacy
The well-known story of vaccination pioneer Edward Jenner has at its heart his drive to make vaccines free of charge and available to all. Now his principles extend to the global campaign for a people’s patent-free vaccine for Covid-19.
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Trading breastmilk with men
When Alev Scott advertised her milk for sale, she was inundated with messages from men keen to satisfy sexual fetishes. Here she finds out who they are, and why women sell to them.
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Homes for the hives of industry
By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.
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Profit and Pleasure, Circular Book 7.
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Profit and pleasure united; or, the husbandman's magazine. Being a most exact treatise of bulls, oxen, cows, calves, horses, ... with directions for their breeding ... Together with easie plain rules and methods for improving arrable and pasture-lands. To which is added, the art of hawking, hunting, angling, and the noble recreation of ringing. By J. Smith Gent.
Smith, John, active 1684-1704.Date: 1704- Books
Bees for pleasure and profit / [G. Gordon Samson].
Samson, G. Gordon.Date: 1892- Books
The clergy-man's recreation: shewing the pleasure and profit of the art of gardening ... / By John Lawrence.
Laurence, John, 1668-1732.Date: 1717- Books
From pleasure and profit to science and security : Etienne Lenoir and the transformation of precision instrument-making in France, 1760-1830 / A.J. Turner.
Turner, Anthony John, 1946-Date: [1989], ©1989