Stories
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The cook who became a pariah
New York, 1907. Mary Mallon spreads infection, unaware that her name will one day become synonymous with typhoid.
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Why gene editing can never eliminate disability
In a world where DNA testing and gene editing offer ways to eliminate certain disabilities, Jaipreet Virdi explores a more accepting and inclusive approach.
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The ‘undesirable epileptic’
Abused in her marriage for being 'a sick woman', Aparna Nair looked to history to make sense of the response to her epilepsy. She discovered how centuries of fear and discrimination were often endorsed by science and legislation.
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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.
Catalogue
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Effective responses to non-communicable diseases : embracing action beyond the health sector / Montserrat Meiro-Lorenzo, Tonya L. Villafana, Margaret N. Harrit.
Merio-Lorenzo, Montserrat.Date: 2011
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Dr. Foote's home cyclopedia of popular medical, social and sexual science : embracing his new book on health and disease, with recipes, treating of the human system, hygiene and sanitation - causes, prevention, cure, and home treatment of chronic diseases, including private words for both sexes, and 250 practical recipes also embracing plain home talk, on love, marriage, and parentage a free and earnest discussion of human, social, and sexual relations in all ages and countries, marriage systems, defects and their remedies, human temperaments and adaptations / by Edward B. Foote.
Foote, Edward B. (Edward Bliss), 1829-1906Date: 1902
- Ephemera
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Conference : recent developments in prevention and therapy through Maharishi ayur-veda towards a disease-free society : new approaches to the prevention and treatment of heart disease, chronic disorders, cancer, AIDS : Royal College of Physicians, London, Monday 17 October 1988 / World Medical Association for Perfect Health - Great Britain.
Date: [1988?]- Ephemera
Infectious diseases ephemera. Box 1.
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Understanding new, resurgent, and resistant diseases : how man and globalization create and spread illness / Kurt Link.
Link, Kurt, 1937-Date: 2007
