Stories
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Mass murder and marvellous medicine
Find out how arsenic has been used for good and ill, to cure and kill, for centuries.
- Book extract
Renaissance women and their killer cosmetics
In this extract from ‘How to be a Renaissance Woman’, Jill Burke delves into a complex world of beauty products, poison and patriarchy – and reveals the impossible contradictions of femininity faced by 16th-century women.
- Article
Colonialism and the origins of skin bleaching
The widespread practice of skin bleaching was heavily influenced by the Western colonisation and slavery of African and South Asian countries. Ngunan Adamu explores this toxic history.
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Tracing the toxic story of tear gas
Investigating tear gas – from factory to Black Lives Matter protest – Imani Jacqueline Brown uncovers a toxic legacy where pollution, violence and racism are intimately entwined.
Catalogue
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Arsenic in drinking water : 2001 update / subcommittee to update the 1999 arsenic in drinking water report, Committee on Toxicology, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council.
National Research Council (U.S.). Subcommittee on Arsenic in Drinking Water.Date: [2001], ©2001- Books
Arsenic in the treatment of skin disease : being a review of a paper in the New York medical journal, August 1876, by L. Duncan Bulkley, "On the use and value of arsenic in the treatment of diseases of the skin" with original observations and cases / by Alexander Henry.
Henry, Alexander.Date: 1876- Books
Arsenic.
Wanklyn, J. Alfred (James Alfred), 1834-1906.Date: 1901- Books
Arsenic in albuminuria / [T. Lauder Brunton].
Brunton, T. Lauder (Thomas Lauder), 1844-1916.Date: 1886- Books
Arsenic, its physiological and therapeutical effects / [James Begbie].
Begbie, James, 1798-1869.Date: 1862