Stories
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Remote diagnosis from wee to the Web
Medical practice might have moved on from when patients posted flasks of their urine for doctors to taste, but telehealth today keeps up the tradition of remote diagnosis – to our possible detriment.
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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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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India
Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.
- Long read
The ambivalence of air
Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.
Catalogue
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The country doctor revisited : a twenty-first-century reader / edited by Therese Zink.
Date: [2010], ©2010- Books
Australian rural practice / Raphael Edward Coolican.
Coolican, Raphael Edward.Date: 1973- Pictures
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Matthew Manna, a country apothecary outside his shop. Etching by M. Darly, 1773, after R.St. G. Mansergh.
Mansergh, R. St. G.Date: 11 October 1773Reference: 16094i- Pictures
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A doctor passing by the cottage of a needy patient, shouting reassurance on his way to hunt. Wood engraving by A.C. Corbould, 1885.
Corbould, A. Chantrey (Alfred Chantrey), 1852-1920.Date: 1885Reference: 14286i- Pictures
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A doctor asking his patients husband how she is, he replies (amidst a devasted room) that he's not sure but she certainly has a temper. Wood engraving by H ..., 1904.
Date: 1904Reference: 15343i