Stories
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The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.
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The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
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The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
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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.
Catalogue
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The Institute for the History of Pharmacy of the Phillipps [sic] University in Marburg on the Lahn, West Germany : a report / by Peter Dilg.
Dilg, Peter.Date: 1972- Books
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A cultural history of heredity IV : heredity in the century of the gene / [organised by Staffan Muller-Wille, Hans-Jorg Rheinberger, John Dupre].
A cultural history of heredity 2006 : University of Exeter, England)Date: 2008- Books
The life & work of Ibn al-Shāṭir : an Arab ast̀ronomer of the fourteenth century / edited by E.S. Kennedy & Imad Ghanem.
Date: 1976- Books
All about science : philosophy, history, sociology & communication / Maria Burguete, Bento da Rocha Cabral Institute for Scientific Research, Portugal, Lui Lam, San Jose State University, USA, editors.
Date: [2014]- Books
Mūsā ibn Maymūn (Maimonides) : texts and studies. Pt 5 / collected and reprinted by Fuat Sezgin [and others].
Date: 1996