Stories
- Article
How I cured my fear of vomiting
Emetophobia ruled every waking moment of Alex’s life. Until he came to realise he couldn’t live that way any more.
- In pictures
How we visualise viruses
Discover how images of the antigens that make us sick have evolved over time and been tailored to meet the demands of different epidemics.
- Article
The father of handwashing
Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.
- Article
Illness and the influence of the stars
Could alien germs from space have caused major pandemics across the world? Taras Young investigates the ideas of a few unconventional scientists who believe this to be the case.
Catalogue
- Books
Germ zappers / Fran Balkwill & Mic Rolph.
Balkwill, Frances R.Date: [2002], ©2002- Books
Germ cell tumours II : proceedings of the 2nd Germ Cell Tumour Conference, Leeds, 15-19 April 1985 / editor[s], W.G. Jones, A. Milford Ward, and C.K. Anderson.
Germ Cell Tumour Conference 1985 : University of Leeds)Date: 1986- Books
Germ theory : practical implications for medicine in Victoria / Gregory Tunchon.
Tunchon, Gregory.Date: 1985- Books
Germ theories, scientific medicine, and the Buffalo medical community / George E. Haddad.
Haddad, George E.Date: 1996- Books
Germ theories in medicine prior to 1870 : further comments on continuity in science / Richard Harrison Shryock.
Shryock, Richard Harrison, 1893-1972Date: 1972
