Stories
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Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high
The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.
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Virtual reality and the fix of the future
Virtual reality, with its complex sensory tricks, takes us beyond the real world. Find out how these potentially addictive experiences can harm us – or might even have therapeutic uses.
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Booze and bad behaviour
Our love of alcohol is like a party that’s lasted nine centuries. But there are signs that the demon drink is losing its appeal.
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Ginger’s role in cures and courtroom battles
Some people will use a dose of ginger to help with hangovers – but it hasn’t always been a friend to the thirsty.
Catalogue
- Books
A short history of drunkenness / Mark Forsyth.
Forsyth, MarkDate: 2017- Books
Cultures of care in Irish medical history, 1750-1970 / edited by Catherine Cox, Maria Luddy.
Date: 2010- Books
Preparing for death, remembering the dead / Tarald Rasmussen, Jon Øygarden Flæten (eds.).
Date: [2015]- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Henry Wellcome Letter Book 6
Date: Aug 1901 - Jul 1903Reference: WF/E/01/01/06Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
Rethinking abortion : equal choice, the Constitution, and reproductive politics / Mark A. Graber.
Graber, Mark A.Date: [1996]