Stories
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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.
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- Long read
Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
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The tale of the toxic kidneys
In 1954 a serendipitous coming together of skills and circumstances allowed the first successful organ transplant to take place. Read how Richard Herrick’s life was prolonged by his identical twin’s generosity.
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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK
Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Ko: Heart Diseases - Older Women
Date: 2006Reference: SA/WHL/14/29/4Part of: Women's Health Library: archive- Archives and manuscripts
Ko: Heart Diseases - Black and Ethnic Minority Women
Date: 1993Reference: SA/WHL/14/29/3Part of: Women's Health Library: archive- Archives and manuscripts
Heart disease: 20 questions - and their answers
Date: c.1960s-1980sReference: SA/NPT/A/6/4/3/16Part of: National Association for the Prevention of Consumption and other forms of Tuberculosis, successor and associated bodies- Ephemera
Weight : being overweight - the problems.
Date: 1995- Ephemera
Weight : being overweight - the problems.
Date: 1993