Stories
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Witches
Many of the women persecuted as witches in the 16th-century “witch craze” were over 50 and exhibited signs of menopause. Helen Foster suggests that the stigma of the wicked witch still affects older women and how they deal with menopause.
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It’s getting mighty crowded
Mid-20th-century population-density research on mice produced a whiskered apocalypse, predicted to become the fate of humans too. But perhaps a more compassionate approach could fend this off.
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Unravelling genetic origins from the potato to cinchona
Starting with the humble potato, Nataly Allasi Canales reveals how researchers unearth the genetic origins of modern plant varieties, and explains why their work is so important for biodiversity.
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The big freeze
In recent years we’ve come to realise that global heating is our biggest threat. But it’s hard to shake off the fear of a return to ice-age conditions, the predominant narrative since the late 17th century.
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An epitome of the reports of the medical officers to the Chinese imperial maritime customs service, from 1871 to 1882 : with chapters on the history of medicine in China; materia medica; epidemics; famine; ethnology; and chronology in relation to medicine and public health / compiled and arranged by C.A. Gordon.
China. Hai guan zong shui wu si shu.Date: 1884- Books
Cultures of care in Irish medical history, 1750-1970 / edited by Catherine Cox, Maria Luddy.
Date: 2010- Books
A sewer is the best medicine : through plague, wars, famine and flood : Sir Robert Rawlinson and the nineteenth century public health revolution / J. Andrew Charles.
Charles, J. AndrewDate: 2022- Books
Society, medicine and politics in colonial India / edited by Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison.
Date: 2018- Books
A brief history of everyone who ever lived : the stories in our genes / Adam Rutherford.
Rutherford, AdamDate: 2016