Stories
- Article
The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
- Article
Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high
The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.
- Long read
Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
Catalogue
- Books
An account of the herbaria of the Department of Botany in the University of Oxford / [Hermia Newman Clokie].
Clokie, Hermia Newman.Date: 1964- Archives and manuscripts
Department of Botany, University College London
Date: Apr 1954Reference: UGC 198/2/2/9Part of: Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland- Journals
Collected papers from the Department of Pathology in the University of Oxford.
Date: [1911?]-- Ephemera
- Online
Department of Anatomy, University Museum, Oxford : Telephone No. 4440.
University of Oxford. University Museum. Department of Anatomy.Date: [1951?]- Ephemera
Genetics & genomics : Professor Peter Donnelly / Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford.
University of Oxford. Nuffield Department of MedicineDate: [between 2005 and 2015?]