Stories
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Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs
The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.
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Diagnosed bipolar, prescribed lithium
In the first part of a series looking into lithium, Laura Grace Simpkins recounts the beginning of her troubled relationship with this mysterious drug.
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Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
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Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
Catalogue
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Versuche zur Auffindung eines Dosirungsgesetzes : eine toxicologisch-mathematische Studie / von Emil Juckuff.
Juckuff, Emil.Date: 1895- Books
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On high potencies and homoeopathics : clinical cases and observations : with an appendix, containing Hahnemann's original views and rules on the homoeopathic dose, chronologically arranged / by B. Fincke.
Fincke, B. (Bernard)Date: 1865- Books
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An experimental inquiry into the relationship of action to dose : especially with reference to repeated administration of indaconitine / by J. Theodore Cash.
Cash, John Theodore, 1854-1936.Date: 1908- Books
Variability in human drug response / Stephen E. Smith and Michael D. Rawlins.
Smith, Stephen E. (Stephen Edward), 1929-2007.Date: [1973]- Books
Pharmacogenetics : towards improving treatment with medicines / [CIOMS Working Group on Pharmacogenetics ; Rashmi Shah (chief ed.)].
Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences. Working Group on Pharmacogenetics.Date: 2005