Stories
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
- Article
Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
- Book extract
Winter blues and the story of SAD
In ‘Chasing the Sun‘ Linda Geddes reveals why for some people, winter is literally depressing, showing how we first came to recognise seasonal affective disorder (SAD).
- Article
On nature cures and taking the waters
When chilly outdoor swims began to chip away at her depression, Jessica J Lee was drawn to a closer study of the complex natural world around her.
Catalogue
- Journals
South-East Asian studies news.
Date: 1985-- Books
Register of South-East Asianists in the United Kingdom / compiled by Pauline Khng and Victor T. King for the Association of South-East Asian Studies in the United Kingdom under the auspices of the British Academy Committee for South-East Asian Studies.
Khng, PaulineDate: [2001], ©2001- Journals
East Asian science, technology, and medicine.
Date: [1999-]- Journals
Bulletin of the International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine.
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- Online
Journal of East Asian archaeology
Date: 1999-2006