Stories
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Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs
The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.
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Hunting lost plants in botanical collections
A bark specimen at Kew recalls the story of a South American man who harvested the most potent source of the only effective malaria treatment available in the late 1800s. Killed for his work and forgotten by history, Manuel Mamani was a victim of the colonial juggernaut.
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How Indigenous insight inspires sustainable science
The forest of the Amazon Basin is inextricably bound up with the lives of the Indigenous peoples living there. Find out how they feel about the forest, use what it provides, and try to protect it from aggressive commercial exploitation.
Catalogue
- Books
Malaria safari / by Richard Van Gelder.
Van Gelder, Richard.Date: 1980- Books
Malaria and French imperialism / by William B. Cohen.
Cohen, William B., 1941-Date: 1983- Books
- Online
The Goulstonian Lectures on the life-history of the malaria germ outside the human body / by Patrick Manson.
Manson, Patrick, Sir, 1844-1922.Date: [1896]- Books
History of malaria and its control in different coalfields of India : a review of 15 years in retrospect / by R.N. Sen and S.A. Azeez.
Sen, R. N.Date: 1963- Videos
Pandemic - a horizon guide.
Date: 2009