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Silent threat
As Vanessa Peterson recovered from a frighteningly serious illness, she wondered whether it was linked to air quality. For many communities, she found, pollution is a political issue.
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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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Reversing the psychiatric gaze
Nineteenth-century psychiatrists were keen to categorise their patients’ illnesses reductively – by their physical appearance. But we can see a far more complex picture of mental distress, revealed by those patients able to express their inner worlds in art.
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Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
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A bride and a bridegroom, as a warning to Americans to be examined for sexually transmitted diseases before marriage. Colour lithograph, ca. 1944.
Date: [1944?]Reference: 729226iPart of: VD graphic- Pictures
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Russian Jews being examined by a doctor before emigration from Liverpool to the United States. Wood engraving after C.J. Staniland, 1891.
Staniland, Charles Joseph, 1838-1916.Date: 1891Reference: 38324i- Books
Defectives in the land : disability and immigration in the age of eugenics / Douglas C. Baynton.
Baynton, Douglas C.Date: [2016]- Videos
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Atrial septal secundum defect : the physical diagnosis of a common cardiac lesion corrected by surgery.
Date: 1964- Videos
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Diphtheria.
Date: 1941