Stories
- 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.
- 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
Chemical highs and psychedelic research
Could recreational drugs make you happy? Kate Wilkinson explores why keen clubber Simon believes taking psychedelics has helped him develop as a person.
- Long read
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
- Archives and manuscripts
C: Drugs - Side Effects
Date: 2005Reference: SA/WHL/6/5Part of: Women's Health Library: archive- Archives and manuscripts
Cf: Hormones and Endocrine Drugs - Side Effects
Date: 1997-2006Reference: SA/WHL/6/14Part of: Women's Health Library: archive- Audio
Turn on, turn off - drugs that changed the world. Pt. 3, Baby blockers.
Date: 1998- Archives and manuscripts
Media - 'Prescription charges, drugs and chemists'
Date: 1979-1985Reference: SA/PAT/C/36/8Part of: The Patients Association- Books
Too many pills : how too much medicine is endangering our health and what we can do about it / James Le Fanu.
Le Fanu, JamesDate: 2018