Stories
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Drugs in Victorian Britain
Many common remedies were taken throughout the 19th century, with more people than ever using them. What was the social and cultural context of this development?
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How Indigenous insight inspires sustainable science
The forest of the Amazon Basin is inextricably bound up with the lives of the Indigenous peoples living there. Find out how they feel about the forest, use what it provides, and try to protect it from aggressive commercial exploitation.
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Hunting lost plants in botanical collections
A bark specimen at Kew recalls the story of a South American man who harvested the most potent source of the only effective malaria treatment available in the late 1800s. Killed for his work and forgotten by history, Manuel Mamani was a victim of the colonial juggernaut.
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Getting the measure of pain
In the 20th century doctors tried to find a way to measure pain. But even when ‘objective’ measures were rejected, an accurate understanding of another’s pain remained frustratingly elusive.
Catalogue
- Books
Coca experiences / Paolo Mantegazza (1859).
Mantegazza, Paolo, 1831-1910Date: 1975- Books
Coca, cocaine and its salts / William Martindale (1886).
Martindale, William, 1840-1902Date: 1975- Books
Coca and cocaine : uses and abuses / George Andrews and David Solomon.
Andrews, GeorgeDate: 1975- Books
Mental alterations produced by coca / Carlos Gutierrez-Noriega.
Gutiérrez-Noriega, Carlos, 1906-1950.Date: 1975- Books
Cocaine consciousness : the gourmet trip / Jerry Hopkins.
Hopkins, JerryDate: 1975