Stories
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When ‘get well soon’ doesn’t cut it
When loved ones are seriously ill, we can hide behind dishonest platitudes or struggle to find the words. Meet the woman working to fix how we speak to sick people.
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When you can’t return home
Migrants and refugees cannot choose to return home, so homesickness becomes a profound and long-lasting feeling. This powerful force infuses migrant cultures, and is rarely given the serious attention it warrants.
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Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
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The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.
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Swahili exercises / compiled for the Universities' Mission to Central Africa by Edward Steere.
Steere, Edward, 1828-1882.Date: 1918- Books
A report to the Medical Board of the Universities' Mission on the health of the European missionaries in the Likoma diocese : including an historical survey from the commencement of work in Nyasaland / by Robert Howard.
Howard, Robert.Date: 1904- Books
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Remarks on the bilious remittent fever of Africa : its treatment and precautions to be used in dangerous localities / by Horace Waller.
Waller, Horace, 1833-1896.Date: 1885- Books
Notes on the cholera epidemics in East Africa / by James Christie, ... Physician to the Sultan of Zanzibar and to the Universities' Mission, East Africa.
Christie, James.Date: 1876- Books
Additional notes on the cholera epidemics on the east coast of Africa / by James Christie, ... Physician to the Sultan of Zanzibar and to the Universities' Mission, East Africa.
Christie, James.Date: 1876