Stories
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Making sunstroke insanity
Medical historian Dr Kristin Hussey takes a closer look at sunstroke and mental illness, and how, in the late 19th century, they connected at the crossroads of colonial science and the idea of whiteness.
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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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Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
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The healing power of breathing
The healing powers of different breathing methods are said to help with a range of health challenges, from asthma to PTSD. Effie Webb traces their spiritual origins and explores the modern proliferation of breathwork therapies.
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The influence of tropical climates, more especially the climate of India, on European constitutions ; the principal effects and diseases thereby induced, their prevention or removal, and the means of preserving health in hot climates, rendered obvious to to Europeans in every capacity : an essay / by James Johnson.
Johnson, James, 1777-1845.Date: 1813- Books
Body burden 2015 : state of India's health : ecology of diseases : a Down to earth annual / editors, Sunita Naraina [and 7 others].
Date: [2015]- Books
Some volatile halogenated hydrocarbons / editors, L. Fishbein, I.K. O'neill.
Date: [1985], ©1985- Books
Understanding new, resurgent, and resistant diseases : how man and globalization create and spread illness / Kurt Link.
Link, Kurt, 1937-Date: 2007- Books
Genetic effects on environmental vulnerability to disease / edited by Michael Rutter.
Date: 2008