Stories
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A brief history of ventilation
As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.
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The birth of Britain's National Health Service
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
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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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Food
What do you have on your plate – animal, mineral or vegetable?
Catalogue
- Books
Minerals and your health / Len Mervyn.
Mervyn, Len.Date: 1981, ©1980- Books
Minerals and metals in pre-modern India / Arun Kumar Biswas.
Biswas, Arun Kumar, 1934-Date: 2001- Books
Minerals and metals in pre-modern India / Arun Kumar Biswas.
Biswas, Arun Kumar, 1934-Date: 2001- Books
Minerals and metals in ancient India / Arun Kumar Biswas, Sulekha Biswas.
Biswas, Arun Kumar, 1934-Date: 1996- Books
Minerals : what they are and why we need them / Miriam Polunin.
Polunin, Miriam.Date: 1979