Stories
- Article
Why pandemic denial is nothing new
Could today’s Covid-deniers be taking lessons from history? After all, it’s nearly 200 years since frustrations at a cholera-induced lockdown erupted in Sunderland.
- Article
The side effects of lithium mining
Laura Grace Simpkins attempts to untangle some uncomfortable truths about the social and environmental costs of making her medication.
- Article
The art of soundproof design
Too much noise is more than annoying – it has serious negative effects on health and cognitive ability. Find out how designers and architects are mitigating the downsides of sound.
- Book extract
The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
Catalogue
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Medical examination of young workers in New Zealand / Board of Health (under Health Act 1956).
Date: 1961- Books
The introduction in New Zealand of the metric system in pharmaceutical and medical practice / Board of Health.
Date: 1963- Books
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A paper on the history and statistics of Asiatic cholera in Jersey : with cursory remarks on some of the most prominent measures of the Central Board of Health of that island / by George Symes Hooper.
Hooper, George Symes.Date: 1833- Books
Morris H. Saffron collection of books on historical medicine : a short title catalogue / presented by the Academy of Medicine of New Jersey to the George F. Smith Library of the Health Sciences, College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
George F. Smith Library of the Health Sciences (Newark, N.J.)Date: 1980- Archives and manuscripts
Board of Health
Date: 1970Reference: SA/DRS/E/2/1Part of: DrugScope