Stories
- Article
We who can’t believe
Unless she falls to the floor unconscious, Anne Boyer has always ignored signs of illness. Cancer, however, made her face her fallibility.
- Article
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.
- Book extract
Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
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Thomas Sankara and the stomachs that made themselves heard
Thomas Sankara’s vision to transform farming and health in Burkina Faso turned to dust with his assassination. Perry Blankson highlights the considerable achievements of Sankara’s brief span in power.
Catalogue
- Books
Food in the United States, 1890-1945 / Megan J. Elias.
Elias, Megan J.Date: [2009]- Books
Food in the United States, 1820s-1890 / Susan Williams.
Williams, Susan, 1948-Date: [2006]- Books
Food in colonial and federal America / Sandra L. Oliver.
Oliver, Sandra L. (Sandra Louise), 1947-Date: 2005- Videos
- Online
Still going places.
Date: 1955- Film
Maragoli.
Date: 1976