Stories
- Article
How shame makes us sick
The fight-or-flight response can have long-term consequences for our bodies if left unchecked. Lucia Osborne-Crowley investigates how shame and trauma are connected, and how both can lead to chronic ill health.
- Article
Soil health and dairy farming in the UK
Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.
- Article
The case of the cancerous stomach
Steak and schnitzel were on the menu again after Theodor Billroth successfully excised a woman’s stomach cancer in 1881. Remarkably, today’s surgeons still perform the same procedure, with slight modifications.
- Long read
The ambivalence of air
Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.
Catalogue
- Books
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Eye-strain as a cause of diseases of the digestive organs / George M. Gould.
Gould, George Milbrey, 1848-1922.Date: 1906- Books
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The surgical works of John Abernethy.
Abernethy, John, 1764-1831.Date: 1825- Books
The psychobiotic revolution : mood, food, and the new science of the gut-brain connection / Scott C. Anderson ; with John F. Cryan, Ph. D. & Ted Dinan, M.D., Ph. D.
Anderson, Scott, 1951-Date: [2017]- Ephemera
Drug advertising ephemera. Box 11.
- Digital Images
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Situs inversus, illustration
S. Roy