Stories
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In search of the ‘nature cure’
Under the competing pressures of modern life, many of us succumb to mental ill health. Samantha Walton explores why so-called ‘nature cures’ don’t help, and how the living world can actually help us.
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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean
Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.
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Love, longing and tea from the polski sklep
For people of Polish origin in the UK, herbal tea is closely tied to health and shared history. Kasia Tomasiewicz explores her changing relationship to these tea-related cultural habits.
- Long read
Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
Catalogue
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A compendium of minerals and stones used in Chinese medicine from the Pen t'sao kang mu, Li Shi Chen 1597 A.D / compiled by B.E. Read and C. Pak.
Read, B. E. (Bernard Emms), 1887-1949.Date: 1928- Books
Quakers in natural history & medicine in Ireland & Britain / [edited for the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin by E. Charles Nelson].
Date: 1996- Books
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An account of the diseases, natural history, and medicines of the East Indies / Translated from the Latin of James Bontius ... To which are added annotations by a physician.
Bondt, Jakob de, 1592-1631.Date: 1769- Books
A history of geology and medicine / edited by C.J. Duffin, The Natural History Museum, London, UK, R.T.J. Moody, Kingston University, London, UK, and C. Gardner-Thorpe, University of Exeter Medical School, UK.
Date: [2013]- Books
Natural and sacred professions : motherhood and medicine in America / Miriam Slater and Penina M. Glazer.
Slater, Miriam.Date: 1981