Stories
- In pictures
Drugs, space travel and the ‘age of promise’
Space-age wonder drug Terramycin promised utopia, but might instead have triggered one of the biggest threats to our future.
- Book extract
Chasing down a mystery illness
In an extract from their graphic novel about a deadly, drug-resistant illness, Val McDermid and Kathryn Briggs explore why knowledge isn’t always the same as power.
- Article
The significance of safe spaces as refuges from racism
Beer writer David Jesudason discusses the impact racism has had on his mental health, and the consolation offered by pubs that feel truly safe.
- Article
The side effects of lithium mining
Laura Grace Simpkins attempts to untangle some uncomfortable truths about the social and environmental costs of making her medication.
Catalogue
- Books
Antibiotics and antibiotic resistance / edited by Lynn L. Silver, Karen Bush.
Date: 2016- Books
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria / Patrick G. Guilfoile ; founding editor, I. Edward Alcamo ; foreword by David Heymann.
Guilfoile, Patrick.Date: [2007], ©2007- Books
Antibiotic resistance : mechanisms and new antimicrobial approaches / Kateryna Kon, MD, PhD, Department of Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology, Kharkiv National Medical University, Kharkiv, Ukraine and Mahendra Rai, PhD, Biotechnology Department, SGB Amravati University, Maharashtra, India.
Kon, Kateryna VolodymyrivnaDate: [2016]- Pictures
Magnified detail of the yellow toxin staphylococcus aureas and its reaction of resistance to penicillin, on a blood agar plate. Watercolour by Barbara E. Nicholson, 1947.
Nicholson, BarbaraDate: 1947Reference: 31985iPart of: Barbara Nicholson medical illustration collection.- Audio
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Date: 2002