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    • Books

    How the other half dies : the real reasons for world hunger / Susan George.

    George, Susan | Date: ©1986, 1976
    • Books

    Blood and urine tyrosine levels in starved x-irradiated rats / by A.J. Luzzio, J.G. Kereiakes and G. Sutton.

    Luzzio, A. J. | Date: 1957
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Cruickshank, Eric Kennedy (1914-2007)

    Cruickshank, Eric Kennedy (1914-2007) | Date: 1918-1994 | Reference: PP/EKC
    • Books

    Starvation : social and psychological aspects of a basic biological stress / Frederick Hocking.

    Hocking, Frederick. | Date: 1969
    • Videos

    Building a new India. Life for the land.

    | Date: 196?
  • view The prophet Elias fed by a raven; representing providence. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
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    The prophet Elias fed by a raven; representing providence. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.

    Murer, Christoph, 1558-1614 | Date: 1622 | Reference: 26705i
    Part of: XL Emblemata miscella nova
    • Books

    Attack on starvation / [Norman W Desrosier].

    Desrosier, Norman W | Date: 1961
  • view Aesculapius (representing medicine) routing death, Ceres (?) supplying milk to the starving. Drawing attributed to J.-C. Bordier du Bignon, 1822.
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    Aesculapius (representing medicine) routing death, Ceres (?) supplying milk to the starving. Drawing attributed to J.-C. Bordier du Bignon, 1822.

    Bordier du Bignon, Jacques-Charles, 1774-1826. | Date: 1822 | Reference: 95i
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    Building a new India. Life for the land.

    | Date: 196?
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    Building a new India. Life for the land.

    | Date: [196-?]
    • Books

    Starvation or plenty / Colin Clark.

    Clark, Colin, 1905-1989 | Date: 1970
  • view Ragionamento sopra il fatto avvenuto in Bergemoletto : in cui tre donne, sepolte fra le rovine della stalla per la caduta d'una gran mole di neve, sono state trovate vive dopo trentasette giorni / [Ignazio Somis].
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    Ragionamento sopra il fatto avvenuto in Bergemoletto : in cui tre donne, sepolte fra le rovine della stalla per la caduta d'una gran mole di neve, sono state trovate vive dopo trentasette giorni / [Ignazio Somis].

    Somis, Ignazio, 1718-1793. | Date: 1758
    • Books

    La dénutrition de guerre : étude clinique anatomo-pathologique et thérapeutiqu / Ed.F. Simonart.

    Simonart, Ed. F. | Date: [1947]
  • view A family is discovered dead from starvation after waiting for welfare assistance. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
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    A family is discovered dead from starvation after waiting for welfare assistance. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.

    Dorville, Noël, 1874-1938 | Reference: 17067i
  • view A mother protecting her baby, representing an appeal for starving children. Photolithograph after K. Kollwitz.
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    A mother protecting her baby, representing an appeal for starving children. Photolithograph after K. Kollwitz.

    Kollwitz, Käthe, 1867-1945 | Date: [1925/1928?] | Reference: 38646i
    • Pictures

    Women and children suffering from famine in Jerusalem. Engraving by A.W. Warren after E. Bird, 1816.

    Bird, Edward, 1772-1819 | Date: June 1816 | Reference: 20109i
    • Books

    La denutrition; clinique, biologie, thérapeutique / par Maurice Lamy, Michel Lamotte et S. Lamotte-Barrillon.

    Lamy, Maurice, 1895- | Date: 1948
    • Ephemera

    Nutrition ephemera. Box 1.

  • view Canton, China: six men suspended by the neck in locked cages in public as a method of slow torture and execution for piracy. Photograph, 18--.
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    Canton, China: six men suspended by the neck in locked cages in public as a method of slow torture and execution for piracy. Photograph, 18--.

    | Date: [between 1800 and 1899] | Reference: 663449i
    • Books

    In darkest Germany / by Victor Gollancz.

    Gollancz, Victor, 1893-1967 | Date: 1947
  • view James Scott, Australian medical student, lost in the Himalayas for forty-three days without food. Drawing by Martin Howard Boscott, 1993.
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    James Scott, Australian medical student, lost in the Himalayas for forty-three days without food. Drawing by Martin Howard Boscott, 1993.

    Boscott, Martin Howard, active 1979- | Date: 1993 | Reference: 485563i
    Part of: James Scott Himalayan Survivor Noesis Series
  • view A hopeless drunkard lying on his bed watched by his poor wife and son. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, c. 1842, after himself.
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    A hopeless drunkard lying on his bed watched by his poor wife and son. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, c. 1842, after himself.

    Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 | Date: [1842] | Reference: 26471i
    Part of: The Drunkard
  • view Recherches expérimentales sur l'inanition / par Charles Chossat.
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    Recherches expérimentales sur l'inanition / par Charles Chossat.

    Chossat, Charles. | Date: 1843
    • Videos

    The unofficial famine.

    | Date: 1985
  • view A complete history of the case of the Welsh fasting-girl (Sarah Jacob) with comments thereon; and observations on death from starvation.
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    A complete history of the case of the Welsh fasting-girl (Sarah Jacob) with comments thereon; and observations on death from starvation.

    Fowler, Robert | Date: 1871
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