Stories
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Of incubators, orchids and artificial wombs
In this extract from Claire Horn’s new book, ‘Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth’, she traces the development of the artificial womb, soon to become a reality.
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Surviving a flesh-eating disease
Nearly dying from a skin infection gave Scott Neill a chance to start again after an early life marked by grief and depression.
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Shakespeare’s cholerics were the real drama queens
In Shakespeare’s times, people’s personalities were categorised by four temperaments. The choleric temperament was hot-tempered and active.
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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.
Catalogue
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Extreme weather, health, and communities : interdisciplinary engagement strategies / Sheila Lakshmi Steinberg, William A. Sprigg, editors.
Date: [2016]
- Ephemera
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Sometimes things can get too hot for a condom ... : extreme heat can weaken condoms ... / Health Education Authority.
Date: Health Education Authority,
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The construction and use of a thermometer for showing the extremes of temperature in the atmosphere, during the observer's absence. Together with experiments on the variations of local heat and other meteorological observations / By James Six.
Six, James, 1731-1793.Date: 1794- Books
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The construction and use of a thermometer, for shewing the extremes of temperature in the atmosphere, during the observer's absence. Together with experiments on the variations of local heat; and other meteorological observations. By James Six, Esq. F.R.S.
Six, James, 1731-1793.Date: 1794- Books
Stay safe in the heat / Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Public Health, Seattle & King County.
Seattle and King County Department of Public HealthDate: [2017?]