This article, written by Sidhesh Phaldessai, provides an overview of geriatric psychopharmacology, including the epidemiology of mental health disorders in the older population, the physiological changes that occur with ageing and their impact on pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, and the use of psychotropic medications in older adults
Remaking history: Renaissance beauty recipes in the modern chemistry lab
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Remaking history: Renaissance beauty recipes in the modern chemistry lab
Sunday 1 May 2022, 12:00 AM
Titian – Venus with a mirror. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC [Image: Images – Wikimedia Commons]
University of Auckland history and chemistry academics Erin Griffey, Cather Simpson, Michel Nieuwoudt and Ruth Cink explain the ways they are recreating historical beauty practices, and how this affects their research today
The desire to appear youthful and beautiful has provided impetus for extraordinary chemical experimentation with cosmetics for millennia.
Historica, Master of the Fontainebleau School – Venus at her toilet, Master of the Fontainebleau School – Venus at her toilet. Musée du Louvre