Stories
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Our endless quest for eternal youth
From poisonous 16th-century cosmetics to the latest “vampire facelift”, discover the fashions in unsavoury methods for improving our appearance.
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Hamlet, the melancholic Prince of Denmark
Hamlet clearly demonstrates an excess of black bile and is arguably the most famous literary melancholic.
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Colonialism and the origins of skin bleaching
The widespread practice of skin bleaching was heavily influenced by the Western colonisation and slavery of African and South Asian countries. Ngunan Adamu explores this toxic history.
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Enduring taboos and the future of skin bleaching
Many condemn skin bleaching in public while secretly lightening their own complexions. To break away from these taboos, we need honest information and open conversation.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Published Papers 1983 - 84
Date: 1983 - June 1984Reference: PP/WRO/D/15Part of: Professor Oliver Wrong- Books
Clinical toxicology : modern methods in the diagnosis and treatment of poisoning / by Erick Leschke. Incorporating material on industrial poisoning / by Franz Koelsch. With two appendices : I. - The prevention and compensation of industrial poisoning / by Franz Koelsch. II. - The detection of poisoning, post mortem / by Karl Meixner ; translated by C. P. Stewart and O. Dorrer.
Leschke, Erich, 1887-1933.Date: 1934- Books
Poisoning : toxicology - symptoms - treatments / by Jay M. Arena.
Arena, Jay M.Date: [1974]- Digital Images
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C18 Chinese woodcut: Alcohol-poisoning laryngitis
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C18 Chinese woodcut: Alcohol-poisoning laryngitis