Stories
- In pictures
The fast and the spurious
Extreme fasting has captured the public imagination for centuries. What pushes people to claim to go without food for improbable lengths of time?
- Article
It’s getting mighty crowded
Mid-20th-century population-density research on mice produced a whiskered apocalypse, predicted to become the fate of humans too. But perhaps a more compassionate approach could fend this off.
- Article
Performance art, frozen in time
For over a year, live performance art with an audience present has been largely impossible. But still images continue to allow artists in this sphere to inspire audiences at home.
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The tradesman who confronted the pestilence
The City of London, 1665. As the Great Plague hits the capital, John New faces a deadly dilemma.
Catalogue
- Books
Starvation or plenty / Colin Clark.
Clark, Colin, 1905-1989.Date: 1970- Books
Starvation in Europe / by Geoffrey H. Bourne, D.SC.
Bourne, Geoffrey H. (Geoffrey Howard), 1909-1988.Date: [1943]- Archives and manuscripts
Starvation in the midst of plenty - Tanzanian paediactrics
Health Education CouncilDate: c.1980Reference: SA/HEC/B/34/42Part of: Health Education Council and Health Education Authority- Books
Starvation : social and psychological aspects of a basic biological stress / Frederick Hocking.
Hocking, Frederick.Date: 1969- Pictures
- Online
Starvation cure in a a sanatorium: a servant is bringing a message to a lady reclining on a couch in a sanatorium. Colour lithograph after Leonard, ca. 1910.
Leonard.Date: 1910Reference: 577229iPart of: Unsere Ärzte: various medical caricatures.