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Sie sind für uns Helfer in der Not und manchmal lebensnotwendig, Medikamente bergen aber auch Risiken und Nebenwirkungen. Die Pharmazeutin Christine Gitter kennt sie ganz genau: die Fragen und Sorgen all jener, die eine Apotheke aufsuchen. Wie soll man es schaffen, eine riesige Kapsel zu schlucken? Woher weiß die Kopfschmerztablette, dass sie in den Kopf soll und: Gibt es diese Pille auch vegan? Jetzt hat sie ihr gesammeltes Apothekenwissen aufgeschrieben.

Drawing upon evidence from archives across the world, Veiled Warriors offers a compelling account of nurses' wartime experiences and a clear appraisal of their work and its contribution to the allied cause between 1914 and 1918, on both the Western and the Eastern Fronts. Nurses believed they were involved in a multi-layered battle. Primarily, they were fighting for the lives of their patients on the "second battlefield" of casualty clearing stations, transports, and military hospitals.

The slow violence being inflicted on our environment—through everything from carbon emissions to plastic pollution—also represents an impending public health catastrophe. Yet standard health care practices are more concerned with short-term outcomes than long-term sustainability. Every resource used to deliver medical care, from IV tubes to antibiotics to electricity, has a significant environmental impact. This raises an urgent ethical dilemma: in striving to improve the health outcomes of individual patients, are we damaging human health on a global scale?

The Tudor dynasty died out because there was no heir of Elizabeth I's body to succeed her. Henry VIII, despite his six marriages, had produced no legitimate son who would live into old age. Three of the reigning Tudors (Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I) died without heirs apparent, the most tragic case being that of Mary Tudor, who went through two recorded cases of phantom pregnancy. If it were not for physical frailty and the lack of reproductive health among the Tudors, the course of history might have been different.

Brought to you by Penguin. We think of babyhood and old age as polar opposites on the spectrum of life. Yet they are profoundly linked. Our early experiences set us up for a lifetime of good mental and physical health, or for future health challenges. The First 1,001 Days will explore these...