Stories
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Tripping for spiritualism and science
Getting high in the name of religion or creativity has been practised for centuries. Now it seems hallucinogenics could help treat mental illnesses too.
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Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high
The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.
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A history of mindfulness
Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.
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The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
Catalogue
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Newsletter / the Sidney M. Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Jerusalem).
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Influenza digital archive : the 1918-1920 influenza pandemic escape community digital document archive / Centre for the History of Medicine.
Date: ©2006-- Books
The Dr. Morris Fishbein Collection : an exhibition of selected books in the history of medicine and the biological sciences, the University of Chicago Library and the Morris Fishbein Center for the Study of the History of Science and Medicine, October 31, 1972 to January 15, 1973.
University of Chicago. Library.Date: 1972]- Books
The history of the health sciences in Michigan : a guide to research sources / compiled and edited by Anne J. Gilliland-Swetland.
Date: 1991- Books
Ways of making and knowing : the material culture of empirical knowledge / edited by Pamela H. Smith, Amy R.W. Meyers, and Harold J. Cook.
Date: [2014]