Stories
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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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Of incubators, orchids and artificial wombs
In this extract from Claire Horn’s new book, ‘Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth’, she traces the development of the artificial womb, soon to become a reality.
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The solidarity of sickness
Visiting an injured friend in hospital prompts writer Sinéad Gleeson to reflect on the instant rapport forged between compatriots in the kingdom of the sick.
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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
Catalogue
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Food consumption levels in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom : report of a special joint committee set up by the Combined Food Board [of the Ministry of Food and the War Food Administration].
Combined Food BoardDate: 1944- Books
Conservatism, consumer choice, and the Food and Drug Administration during the Reagan era : a prescription for scandal / Lucas Richert.
Richert, Lucas, 1979-Date: [2014]- Books
The therapeutic nightmare : a report on the roles of the United States Food and Drug Administration, the American Medical Association, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and others in connection with the irrational and massive use of prescription drugs that may be worthless, injurious, or even lethal / by Morton Mintz.
Mintz, Morton.Date: 1965- Books
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Interagency coordination in drug research and regulation : hearings before the Subcommittee on Reorganization and International Organizations of the Committee on Government Operations, United States Senate, Eighty-eighth Congress, first session. Agency coordination study, pursuant to S. Res. 27, 88th Cong. Review of cooperation on drug policies among Food and Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health, Veterans' Administration, and other agencies. Mar. 20-June 26, 1963.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations.Date: 1963- Books
Legalization of drug standards under state laws in the United States of America / by Glenn Sonnedecker and George Urdang.
Sonnedecker, Glenn, 1917-Date: [1953]