Stories
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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.
- Article
‘Jessy’, a film about cerebral palsy
How the 1950s British film industry portrayed this disease.
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People against pollution
Alice Bell reflects on what happens when communities help solve environmental problems, and whether citizen science can help fight industrial pollution today.
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How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory
A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.
Catalogue
- Books
Research to protect, restore, and manage the environment / Committee on Environmental Research, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council.
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Environmental Research.Date: 1993- Books
Evaluating human genetic diversity / Committee on Human Genome Diversity, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council.
Date: 1997- Books
Rodents / Committee on Rodents, Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council.
Date: 1996- Books
Opportunities in biology / Committee on Research Opportunities in Biology, Board in Biology, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council.
Date: 1989- Books
Putting biotechnology to work : bioprocess engineering / Committee on Bioprocess Engineering, Board on Biology, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council.
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Bioprocess Engineering.Date: 1992