Stories
- Book extract
Why the NHS is worth saving
In this extract from his latest book, ‘Free For All’, Dr Gavin Francis poses challenging questions to be addressed if a health service that’s free for all at the point of use is to remain possible.
- Article
A history of gestation outside the body
It’s been over 400 years since a Swiss alchemist theorised that foetuses could develop outside the womb. Claire Horn examines incubator technology past and present, and explores the possibilities recent prototypes might bring.
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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
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Coleridge’s hypochondria
An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.
Catalogue
- Books
The art and science of Ernst Haeckel / authors, Rainer Willmann, Julia Voss.
Willmann, Rainer, 1950-Date: [2017]- Books
Animals and men : their relationship as reflected in Western art from prehistory to the present day / Kenneth Clark.
Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983.Date: [1977], ©1977- Books
Parodic animal physicians from the margins of medieval manuscripts / David A. Sprunger.
Sprunger, David A.Date: 1996- Books
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A complete English dispensatory: containing the general nature and medicinal virtues of all the simples now in use. With the prescriptions of the most approved authors, as well as of the London and Edinburgh dispensatories ... To which is prefix'd, the history of the ... College of Physicians, London; of the principal chymists; of the venereal diseases; of the circulation of the blood; and other ... subjects / [Robert Colborne].
Colborne, Robert.Date: 1756- Books
Natural history, lore and legend : being some few examples of quaint and by-gone beliefs gathered in from divers authorities, ancient and mediaeval, of varying degrees of reliability / by F. Edward Hulme.
Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909.Date: 1895