Stories
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The evil eye and social anxiety
The ‘look’ of the evil eye is believed to bring bad luck, illness or even death. This ancient curse might be deliberate, inflicted with an envious glare, or it could be accidental, the result of undue attention or excessive praise.
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The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
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Winter blues and the story of SAD
In ‘Chasing the Sun‘ Linda Geddes reveals why for some people, winter is literally depressing, showing how we first came to recognise seasonal affective disorder (SAD).
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Drugs in Victorian Britain
Many common remedies were taken throughout the 19th century, with more people than ever using them. What was the social and cultural context of this development?
Catalogue
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Making Americans healthier : social and economic policy as health policy / [edited by] Robert F. Schoeni [and others].
Date: [2008], ©2008- Archives and manuscripts
British Social Hygiene Council
British Social Hygiene CouncilDate: 20th centuryReference: SA/BSH- Books
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Growing up in the black belt : Negro youth in the rural South / by Charles S. Johnson ; prepared for the American youth commission.
Johnson, Charles Spurgeon, 1893-1956Date: 1941- Books
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Caste and class in a southern town / John Dollard.
Dollard, John, 1900-1980Date: [1957], ©1949- Books
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The hip hop generation : young Blacks and the crisis in African American culture / Bakari Kitwana.
Kitwana, BakariDate: [2002], ©2002