Stories
- Article
The search for a cure for endometriosis
Discover how a white American doctor’s experimental operations on black female slaves laid the foundations for modern gynaecological surgery.
- 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.
- 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
The law of periodicity for menstruation
Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.
Catalogue
- Books
Sentinel for health : a history of the Centers for Disease Control / Elizabeth W. Etheridge.
Etheridge, Elizabeth W.Date: [1992], ©1992- Books
Survey of research on sexually transmitted diseases / [prepared by Centers for Disease Control, Center for Prevention Services, Technical Information Services ; editor, Caffilene Allen].
Date: 1985- Books
Survey of research on sexually transmitted diseases / [prepared by Centers for Disease Control, Center for Prevention Services, Technical Information Services ; editor, Caffilene Allen].
Date: 1986- Books
Survey of research on sexually transmitted diseases / [prepared by Centers for Disease Control, Center for Prevention Services, Technical Information Services ; editor, Caffilene Allen].
Date: [1983?]- Books
Emerging infectious diseases : art in science / Polyxeni Potter, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Potter, PolyxeniDate: [2014]