Battling infectious diseases in the 20th century: The impact of vaccines
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Declaration of Helsinki turns sixty – how this foundational document of medical ethics has stood the test of time
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An archaeology of personhood and abortion: Opinions about fetal personhood and abortion have fluctuated enormously throughout history and differ in surprising ways between cultures
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The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better.
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No Fap: A cultural history of anti-masturbation
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Why we didn’t get a malaria vaccine sooner
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Fifty years on, Swedish psychiatrists are now calling the infamous Stockholm Syndrome a 'constructed concept' used to explain away the failures of the State
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Freedom House Ambulance Service - a history of the USA's first paramedics
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The Reemergent 1977 H1N1 Strain and the Gain-of-Function Debate (2015)
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Depression has often been blamed on low levels of serotonin in the brain. That answer is insufficient, but alternatives are coming into view and changing our understanding of the disease.
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Under anesthesia, where do our minds go? To better understand our brains and design safer anesthesia, scientists are turning to EEG.
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How our ancestors used to sleep can help the sleep-deprived today
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The great measles immunity heist
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America has a drinking problem
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The sixty-year-old scientific screwup that helped Covid kill
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The sixty-year-old scientific screwup that helped Covid kill
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth: A brief history of people losing their minds in Antarctica
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I looked at 100 ads for menstrual products spanning 100 years — shame and secrecy prevailed
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Lessons from a year of Covid
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Matthew Syed looks at how the behaviour of hostages at a 1973 bank robbery gave rise to a concept known as Stockholm syndrome
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Joseph Goldberger’s filth parties: A crusading doctor’s stomach-churning efforts to beat back pellagra in the American South
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A brief history of quarantine: Sin, space, and ships
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Get in shape girl: A century of working out from home
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Where Dr. Anothony Fauci came from — and the crisis that shaped his career
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How one man poisoned a city’s water supply (and saved millions of children’s lives in the process)
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The history of mainstream handwashing only began near the end of the 19th century
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The coronavirus called America’s bluff: Like Japan in the mid-1800s, the United States now faces a crisis that disproves everything the country believes about itself
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The genesis of the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic
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"Theire Soe Admirable Herbe": How the English Found Cannabis
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Too lazy to work out? Machines that exercise for you, from Victorian era to now
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America’s first opioid epidemic: As the country struggles with a terrible opioid crisis, we remember a similar epidemic that raged through the US in the 1800s
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In a Colombian family’s dementia, a journey through race and history
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Petrus Gonsalvus and the real Beauty and The Beast story
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The world's most common contraception has a dark past
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Chronic - For big pharma, the perfect patient is wealthy, permanently ill and a daily pill-popper. Will medicine ever recover?
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