Stories
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Tripping for spiritualism and science
Getting high in the name of religion or creativity has been practised for centuries. Now it seems hallucinogenics could help treat mental illnesses too.
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Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high
The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.
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Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines
From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.
- In pictures
How Mills & Boon made medicine romantic
‘Doctor-nurse’ romances are a hugely popular trope. Agnes Arnold-Forster explores their history and surprisingly nuanced depictions of womanhood, hospitals and the welfare state.
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Literature and medicine
Date: 1982-- Archives and manuscripts
History of medicine - Publications, journal articles and newsletters
Date: 1881-1995Reference: PP/AJB/3/25Part of: Beale, (Alan) John (1923-2005), Virologist- Books
Coping with sickness : medicine, law and human rights - historical perspectives / edited by John Woodward and Robert Jütte.
Date: 2000- Archives and manuscripts
History of medicine - Beale's writings
Date: c.1990-1996Reference: PP/AJB/3/24Part of: Beale, (Alan) John (1923-2005), Virologist- Books
'A physic against death' : eternal life and the Enlightenment - gender and gerontology / Marie Mulvey Roberts.
Mulvey Roberts, MarieDate: 1993