Stories
- Article
Hands-on healthcare
A young hospital volunteer feared her contribution was a long way from the serious business of real healthcare. But time spent painting patients’ nails proved to be a valuable contribution to life on the ward.
- Long read
Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
- 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.
- Long read
The ambivalence of air
Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
UwKo: Hormone Replacement Therapy & Heart Disease
Date: 1997-2004Reference: SA/WHL/23/32/22Part of: Women's Health Library: archive- Books
- Online
On the technology of mechano-therapy and resistance movements in the treatment of heart disease / by Thomas Stretch Dowse.
Dowse, Thomas Stretch.Date: 1898- Archives and manuscripts
UwKo: HRT and Heart Disease Prevention
Date: 1996-2005Reference: SA/WHL/23/32/23Part of: Women's Health Library: archive- Books
Medicines for the heart : The medicines you take, why you take them, and some information that may help you / British Heart Foundation.
Date: [Between 1985 and 1989?]- Books
Yoga therapy in asthma, diabetes and heart disease : (principles, practice, scientific results) / by the Sadhakas.
Sadhakas.Date: [1999], ©1999