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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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.
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London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
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Our endless quest for eternal youth
From poisonous 16th-century cosmetics to the latest “vampire facelift”, discover the fashions in unsavoury methods for improving our appearance.
Catalogue
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NGO-zoom fruits : directory and portraits of organisations dealing/working with old fruit varieties in Europe.
Date: 2001- Archives and manuscripts
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Printed material about Starehe, The African Medical Research Foundation and other organisations, collected during RSA's visits
Date: c.1978-1982Reference: PP/ADD/E/6/16Part of: Robina Addis (1900-1986): archives- Pictures
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The breast cancer pink ribbon emblem representing the word 'pink': mobile mammography units in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Safaricom Foundation, ca. 2007.
Date: [2007?]Reference: 756133i- Books
Improving patient flow : how two trusts focused on flow to improve the quality of care and use available capacity effectively : learning report.
Garrett, SarahDate: 2013- Books
Money distribution machine and other useful contraptions / by Kathrin Böhm together with Three CS and Tim Hunkin, Technology Will Save Us, Cabaret Mechanical Theatre, Blake Fall-Conroy, Colour Makes People Happy, Carys Davis and Rosalie Woods.
Böhm, KathrinDate: 2014