Stories
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The art of soundproof design
Too much noise is more than annoying – it has serious negative effects on health and cognitive ability. Find out how designers and architects are mitigating the downsides of sound.
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Eugenics and the welfare state
Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.
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The law of periodicity for menstruation
Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.
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In search of the ‘nature cure’
Under the competing pressures of modern life, many of us succumb to mental ill health. Samantha Walton explores why so-called ‘nature cures’ don’t help, and how the living world can actually help us.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Winslow, C-E A, Historical Library, Yale University School of Medicine, later Editor of the American Journal of Public Health
Date: 1951-1955Reference: PP/AWD/B/12/7/4Part of: Daley, Sir (William) Allen (1887-1969)- Books
The development of knowledge of blood represented by manuscripts, and by selected books published from 1490 to the 19th century : an exhibition [at Widener Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 20th to June 1st, 1951].
Date: [1951]- Books
BMD : biomedical computer programs / W.J. Dixon, editor ; Health Sciences Computing Facility, Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles.
Date: 1965- Books
Mental health teaching in schools of public health : a report based on the work of six pre-conference committees and a national conference held at Arden House, New York, on December 6-11, 1959 / Columbia University, School of Public Health and Administrative Medicine.
Date: [1961]- Archives and manuscripts
Hill, Alfred Bostock (1854-1932) Professor of Hygiene and Public Health, Birmingham University
Hill, Alfred Bostock, 1854-1932.Date: 1876-1932Reference: MSS.5165-5177