Stories
- Article
A history of mindfulness
Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.
- Article
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.
- Article
Yoga adapts to time and place
A yoga teacher in 1930s India inspired today’s transnational practice with his spectacular fusion of tradition and innovation.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
Catalogue
- Books
A cultural history of race / general editor, Marius Turda.
Date: 2021- Books
Concerning beards : facial hair, health and practice in England 1650-1900 / Alun Withey.
Withey, AlunDate: 2021- Books
Food and museums / edited by Nina Levent and Irina D. Mihalache.
Date: 2017- Books
Foundations for excellence : 75 years of Duke medicine / by Walter E. Campbell ; edited by Maura High.
Campbell, Walter E.Date: [2006], ©2006- Books
To each his farthest star : University of Rochester Medical Center, 1925-1975 / [conceived, assigned, edited, and assembled by the members and staff of the Publications and Publicity Committee, Edward C. Atwater and others, John Romano, chairman of committee and senior editor].
Date: [1975], ©1975