Stories
- Article
Jim, the horse of death
Horses’ blood was used to produce an antitoxin that saved thousands of children from dying from diphtheria, but contamination was a deadly problem. Find out how a horse called Jim was the catalyst for the beginnings of medical regulation.
- Article
Public health campaigns and the ‘threat’ of disability
By continuing to represent disability as the feared outcome of disease, public health campaigns help to perpetuate prejudice against disabled people.
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We who can’t believe
Unless she falls to the floor unconscious, Anne Boyer has always ignored signs of illness. Cancer, however, made her face her fallibility.
- Book extract
What the wind can bring
In this extract from ‘This Book is a Plant’, Amanda Thomson shares a newfound fascination with flowers, and reveals why our relationship with plants can also be complicated.
Catalogue
- Books
The rheumatic infection in childhood / by Leonard Findlay.
Findlay, Leonard, 1878-1947.Date: 1931- Books
Urinary tract infection in childhood and its relevance to disease in adult life / Victoria Smallpiece.
Smallpeice, Victoria.Date: 1968- Books
Tuberculosis infection in childhood and adolescence : as illustrated by a 27-year follow-up study of a complete year-group of the population of Bergen, Norway / by Eilert Eilertsen.
Eilertsen, Eilert.Date: [1964], ©1964- Videos
Fight for life. Part 2, Childhood.
Date: 2007- Books
Management of the child with a serious infection or severe malnutrition : guidelines for care at the first-referral level in developing countries.
Date: [2000], ©2000