Stories
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Building resilience in a racist world
With the resurgence of racism in today’s UK, Louisa Adjoa Parker reflects on the trauma of growing up in a racist society and explores how victims could begin to heal.
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The father of handwashing
Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.
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Sun salutations and yoga synthesis in India
Surya namaskars, or sun salutations, have a long history in South Asia, but their place at the heart of modern yoga is more recent.
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Inside the Cold War mind
Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.
Catalogue
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Guidelines for blood-material interactions / Devices and Technology Branch, Division of Heart and Vascular Diseases, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
Date: 1980- Books
Stop rheumatic fever / prepared by the National Heart Institute in cooperation with the Council on Rheumatic Fever and Congenital Heart Disease of the American Heart Association.
Date: 1955- Books
Guidelines for physicochemical characterization of biomaterials, April 1979 / Devices and Technology Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
Date: 1980- Books
William Harvey, tercentenary commemoration, 1957 : catalog of exhibit "William Harvey and the circulation of the blood," / prepared by National Heart Institute and National Library of Medicine.
National Heart Institute (U.S.)Date: [1957]- Books
Proceedings of the first conference on electrokymography : held May 25-26, 1950, in Bethesda, Md / sponsored by the National Heart Institute.
Conference on Electrokymography 1950 : Bethesda, Md.)Date: 1951]