Stories
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Obesity and Britain’s boys
Six young men and six experiences of being overweight. Find out how these boys and their loved ones feel about this stigmatising issue.
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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.
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Report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the effect of food derived from tuberculous animals on human health. : Part II. List of witnesses, minutes of evidence, and index. Part III. Appendix. Special inquiries.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Tuberculosis.Date: 1895- Books
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Report of the Commitee appointed by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, to enquire into the causes of the outbreak of scurvy in the recent Arctic Expedition ; the adequacy of the provision made by the Admiralty in the way of food, medicine, and medical comforts ; and the propriety of the orders given by the commander o[f] the Expedition for provisioning the sledge parties.
Great Britain. Admiralty. Committee on Scurvy.Date: [1877?]- Books
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First-[second] report of the Royal Sanitary Commission.
Great Britain. Royal Sanitary Commission.Date: 1869-1874- Books
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Report of Sir John Hawkshaw, the Commissioner appointed to inquire as to the pruification of the River Clyde ; together with appendix and minutes of evidence / [Sir John Hawkshaw].
Hawkshaw, John, Sir.Date: 1876- Books
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Report from the Select Committee on Improvement of the Health of Towns, together with the minutes of evidence, appendix, and index. : Effect of internment of bodies in towns / Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 14 June 1842.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Improvement of the Health of Towns.Date: [1842?]