Stories
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Making sunstroke insanity
Medical historian Dr Kristin Hussey takes a closer look at sunstroke and mental illness, and how, in the late 19th century, they connected at the crossroads of colonial science and the idea of whiteness.
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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
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A symbol of a lost homeland
The story of one protective amulet from Palestine reveals a complex tale. Encompassing the personal history of an influential doctor and collector, it provides a window onto dispossession and exile, and the painful repercussions that are still felt today.
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My rainforest upbringing
In the introduction to her serial, research biologist Nataly Allasi Canales charts the influences that led her to passion for preserving the species of the Peruvian Amazon, where she spent her childhood.
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Tropical disease : a memorandum / by T. Spencer Cobbold.
Cobbold, T. Spencer (Thomas Spencer), 1828-1886.Date: [1882]- Books
Tropical disease research : progress 1995-96 thirteenth programme report UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR).
Date: 1997- Books
Tropical disease research : progress 1991-92 eleventh programme report of the UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR).
Date: 1993- Books
Tropical disease research : TDR seventh programme report, 1 January 1983 - 31 December 1984 / UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases.
Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases.Date: [1985], ©1985- Books
Tropical disease research : progress 1975-94 highlights 1993-94 twelfth programme report of the UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR).
Date: 1995