Stories
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Dating on dopamine
Drug treatment for Parkinson’s can come with an unwanted side serving of compulsive behaviour, as Pete Langman discovered. Read about his dating journey in a dopamine cloud.
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Documents of my breath
Swati Joshi’s childhood bronchitis meant that she couldn’t imagine being able to breathe easily. As an adult, she chronicles her recovery through artworks created using bubbles and her breath.
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Pain and the power of activism
Today, women with endometriosis have more access to better information than ever before. Jaipreet Virdi applauds the shared stories, online communities and self-help books empowering women in pain.
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Tragic artists and their all-consuming passions
Does having a debilitating disease help or hinder creative genius?
Catalogue
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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- Books
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Syllabus of lectures on the theory and practice of midwifery: Including The Pathology or general Doctrine of acute and chronic Diseases incident to Women and Children, with their Treatment and Cure. - For the clearer Demonstration of operative Midwisery (whether simply by the Hand, or Application of Instruments) the several Methods of assisting in laborious and preternatural Labours, will not only be described according to the most approved modern Practice, but likewise distinctly shewn by an artificial Representation of each difficult Case, upon Machines of a new Construction. The whole will be illustrated by such Anatomical Preparations as are applicable to each Lecture; with various Observations, extraordinary Cases, and necessary Cautions; but particularly, by real Labours. By John Leake, M. D. Member of the Royal College of Physicians, London, and Physician to the Westminster Lying-in Hospital, At his House in Craven-Street in the Strand.
Leake, John, 1729-1792.Date: 1782- Books
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The treatment of chronic disease of the uterine appendages / by Alban Doran.
Doran, Alban H. G. (Alban Henry Griffiths), 1849-1927.Date: [1891]- 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?]- Books
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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