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How Indigenous insight inspires sustainable science

The forest of the Amazon Basin is inextricably bound up with the lives of the Indigenous peoples living there. Find out how they feel about the forest, use what it provides, and try to protect it from aggressive commercial exploitation.

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Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard

Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.

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Identifying skin lightening agents in cosmetics

Could your moisturiser be damaging your health? If it contains skin-lightening agents, the answer is yes. But this is an area where consumers definitely do not have the upper hand.

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Hunting lost plants in botanical collections

A bark specimen at Kew recalls the story of a South American man who harvested the most potent source of the only effective malaria treatment available in the late 1800s. Killed for his work and forgotten by history, Manuel Mamani was a victim of the colonial juggernaut.

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  • Sir John Vane & Dr Salvador Moncada
  • Warning : SmithKline Beecham funds animal experiments at Huntingdon Life Sciences : boycott their products / SHAC.
  • Warning : SmithKline Beecham funds animal experiments at Huntingdon Life Sciences : boycott their products / SHAC.
  • Pharmaceutical beds at Chelsea Phy Garden
  • A cow wearing a rosette above an image of a parasite that affects cattle: advert for Valbazen, a cure for parasitic cattle infections in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ultravetis, ca. 2000.
  • Drug advertising ephemera. Box 15.
  • Two plus signs [for HIV positive] separated by a line with two arrows pointing right [for the male symbol] representing an advertisement for HanseGay, 1995, a cultural event by Rat + Tat e.V. for gays and lesbians. Colour lithograph by Langenhan, 1995.
  • The Wellcome Research Laboratories, Beckenham: bird's eye view. Drawing by V. New, 1981.
  • The Wellcome Research Laboratories, Beckenham: bird's eye view. Drawing by V. New, 1981.
  • Italian drug jar dated 1750 : a study in pharmaceutical elegance / The Distillers Company (Biochemicals) Limited.
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