Stories
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How your hairdresser could save your life
Barbers and hairdressers have a unique view of us – one that means they can spot potentially dangerous health problems. Find out how buzzcuts can lead to blood-pressure checks, and dip-dyes show the way to the dermatologist.
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What is structural violence?
Structural violence is seemingly invisible. But its tentacles have invaded every part of many people’s lives, thoughts, experiences and expectations, shaping them in ways they don’t even realise.
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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’.
Catalogue
- Ephemera
Indigestion and constipation ephemera. Box 1.
- Ephemera
Insects and pests ephemera. Box 2.
- Ephemera
Sexually transmitted diseases ephemera. Box 1.
- Books
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The renewal of life : clinical lectures illustrative of a restorative system of medicine, given at St. Mary's Hospital / by Thomas K. Chambers.
Chambers, Thomas King, 1818-1889.Date: 1863- Ephemera
Food supplements ephemera. Box 16.