Stories
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
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The origins and meanings of pharmacy symbols
What have snakes, unicorns and crocodiles got to do with pharmacies? The history of these modern signs goes back to the Greek gods.
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Theriac: An ancient brand?
The name theriac survived for around for two millennia as a pharmaceutical term. But a ‘brand’ name is not always a guarantee of quality.
- Article
The conditional child
Deanna Fei asks what it means to sustain a life, drawing on her own experience of having a premature baby as well as an 18th-century essay.
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The bureau of wet nurses in Paris - wet nurses waiting to be selected. Aquatint after C. Brocas, 1822.
Brocas, Charles, 1774-1835.Date: 1822Reference: 17481i- Pictures
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Lourdes, France: a hospital ward: a priest and a nurse by the bed of a boy. Photograph, ca. 1937.
Date: 1937Reference: 578616i- Pictures
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Nurses caring for patients in Morocco: celebrating International Nursing Day on 12 May 2002 . Colour lithograph by Moroccan Ministry of Health, 2002.
Date: 2002Reference: 771917i- Pictures
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F. Marques, a nurse, talks to a colleague in a hospital: a photograph by Manuel Aries representing an advertisement for an exhibition entitled: "Views: caregivers at the heart of the AIDS years" at the Hôtel de Miramon from 1st December [World AIDS Day] 1992 to 16th January 1993 by the Musée de l'Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris. Lithograph.
Date: 1992Reference: 672730i- Pictures
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A doctor and nurse tending an AIDS patient in a hospital bed, a photograph by Pierre Michaud representing an advertisement for an exhibition entitled: "Views: caregivers at the heart of the AIDS years" at the Hôtel de Miramon from 1st December [World AIDS Day] 1992 to 16th January 1993 by the Musée de l'Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris. Lithograph.
Date: 1992Reference: 672729i