Stories
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Shame’s long shadow
What is shame and why is it so powerful? A violent sexual assault left Lucia Osborne-Crowley suffocated with shame, but she’s now determined to understand how this overwhelming emotion works.
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We need less ‘sickle cell warriors’ and more allies
Rejecting the epithet “warrior”, Cheryl Telfer describes the pervasive effect sickle cell disease has on her life, and calls for more people to donate blood to help sicklers.
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How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory
A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.
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Thousands of years of women’s pain
Even in the 21st century, women with severe monthly pain find their suffering minimised or dismissed by the medical profession. Such pain is seen as simply a natural part of being female.
Catalogue
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Investigations into the oscillatory method for determination of systolic blood pressure : its principles and some errors involved in its use / by A. Eldahl.
Eldahl, A.Date: 1933
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Blood pressure simplified / published by Medical Department of Taylor Instrument Companies.
Date: [1917], ©1917- Books
The measurement of arterial blood pressure, with special reference to life assurance examinations / by K. Shirley Smith.
Smith, K. Shirley.Date: 1942- Books
Blood pressure technique simplified / W.H. Cowing.
Cowing, W. H. (William Henry), 1872-1916.Date: 1912
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Studies in blood-pressure, physiological and clinical / by George Oliver.
Oliver, George (George Arthur), 1841-1915.Date: 1906