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Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list

...malady, or by the influence of habit, which inures us to all that is detestable or perilous, but by a belief that this was as eligible an avenue to death as any other; and that life is a trivial sacrifice in the cause of duty. I passed from one room to the other. A portmanteau, marked with the initials of Wallace's name, at length attracted my notice. From this...
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Article 5 mins
Building the first Thames sewer system
Science, Maths & Technology

Building the first Thames sewer system

...maladies than cesspools in every street would have done. In fact, in our reforming zeal, we have merely changed a hundred thousand small cesspools for one moster one. We undertook only a part of the necessary work, and that not the most important part. When the old Board of Health resolved that every house should be drained, they ought alos to have found a sufficient...
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Article 10 mins
What were Victorian pauper's graves like?
History & The Arts

What were Victorian pauper's graves like?

...malady, the cholera, were unfortunately very numerous. In this unpleasant dilemma he felt it to be his duty to call a meeting of the inhabitants to decide what was best to be done under the circumstances, and the result was a recommendation to dig deep graves from thenceforth. He further begged to state, that he had on several occasion sent a presentment, expressed in the...
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Article 10 mins
Should we test drugs on pregnant women?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should we test drugs on pregnant women?

...maladies: precise figures are hard to pin down, but according to several reviews of prescription databases, the share of pregnant women who receive at least one prescription during pregnancy is 56 per cent in Denmark and Canada, 57 per cent in Norway, 64 per cent in the USA, 85 per cent in Germany and 93 per cent in France. Knowledge is power But with so little data...
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Article 15 mins
Advanced French: At the science museum in Paris
Languages

Advanced French: At the science museum in Paris

...maladies infectieuses ; les microbes ; les bactéries Épidémik l’anthropométrie ; la carte à puce ; les empreintes génétiques La biométrie : le corps identité la saga de la conquête spatiale L’espace À l’aide des deux listes suivantes, faites correspondre le numéro qui apparaît dans le menu à la lettre correcte. le génome humain ; le clonage ; les...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
EPQs: writing up your dissertation
Education & Development

EPQs: writing up your dissertation

...Maladies. London: Fourth Estate. Article from an academic journal Surname, Initial. (Year of publication) ‘Title of article’, Title of Journal, volume number (issue number), page reference. Doi: doi number if available OR Available at: URL (Accessed date) Ungar, S. (2008) ‘Global bird flu communication: hot crisis and media reassurance’, Science Communication,...
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Article 5 mins
Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic
OpenLearn Ireland

Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic

...maladies, both physical and psychological. A recognizable cast of character emerge within the Gothic tradition. Supernatural beings such as vampires, ghosts and demons often appear alongside men and women who typify extremes of good and evil: monks and nuns, violent tyrants and naïve damsels in distress, Byronic heroes and femmes fatales. It might be worth noting that...
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Article 45 mins
Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...maladie héréditaire assassine la race, 1920, France, lithograph on paper, 62 × 81 cm. Photo: U.S. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division, USA. Notice how syphilis is linked to the New Woman, with her short hair and glamorous appearance. Broadly speaking, there were two possible approaches. The first, supported by churches and social purity...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
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