Stories
- Article
Rethinking the placebo effect
The placebo effect has long been harnessed for both legitimate and fraudulent use, but we’re only just discovering how and why our bodies respond positively to dummy drugs, as Anjuli Sharma reveals.
- Article
Cowpox, Covid-19 and Jenner’s vaccination legacy
The well-known story of vaccination pioneer Edward Jenner has at its heart his drive to make vaccines free of charge and available to all. Now his principles extend to the global campaign for a people’s patent-free vaccine for Covid-19.
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Remote romance and the common cold
Getting creatively romantic due to a virus sounds all too contemporary, but our archives show what socially distanced seduction looked like seven decades ago.
- In pictures
Pum Dunbar’s living lessons
Read the ‘legends’ that give insight into Pum Dunbar’s creative process while producing her recent series of collages.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Clinical trials Sub-committee.
Date: 1972Reference: SA/FPA/A5/160/4Part of: Family Planning Association- Archives and manuscripts
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Clinical trials Sub-committee.
Date: 1970-1972Reference: SA/FPA/A5/160/3Part of: Family Planning Association- Archives and manuscripts
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Clinical trials Sub-committee.
Date: 1968-1969Reference: SA/FPA/A5/160/2Part of: Family Planning Association- Archives and manuscripts
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Clinical trials Sub-committee.
Date: 1960-1967Reference: SA/FPA/A5/160/1Part of: Family Planning Association- Archives and manuscripts
"Clinical trials: retrospect and prospect"
Date: 1982Reference: PP/DOL/D/2/45Part of: Doll, Sir Richard (1912-2005)