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- Book extract
Eating their own kind
In his grisly history of cannibalism, zoologist Bill Schutt asks what drives an animal to feast on its own flesh and blood.
- Article
- Article
Ken’s ten: looking back at ten years of Wellcome Collection
| Ken Arnold
Wellcome Collection founder Ken Arnold picks his favourite exhibits.
- Article
- Article
Sex in graphic novels
| Stephen Lowther
Sex and sexuality have long been explored in the history of the graphic novel.
- Long read
- Long read
The ambivalence of air
| Daisy LafargeCarol Nazatto
Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.
- Article
- Article
Can our sexual desires be transformed?
| Charlie WilliamsSarah MarksDaniel Pick
In the 1950s, many psychiatrists thought that homosexuality could be reformed. One found that it couldn’t – and his discoveries led to a change in the law.
- Book extract
- Book extract
Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations
| Kate SummerscaleTim Robinson
Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.