Stories
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Robinson Crusoe and the morality of solitude
Robinson Crusoe, fiction’s most famous castaway, was certainly isolated, but did he suffer the intrinsically modern affliction of loneliness?
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The meanings of hurt
In the early modern period, gruesome incidents of self-castration and other types of self-injury garnished the literature of the time. Alanna Skuse explores the messages these wounds conveyed.
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Why gene editing can never eliminate disability
In a world where DNA testing and gene editing offer ways to eliminate certain disabilities, Jaipreet Virdi explores a more accepting and inclusive approach.
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The island of unclaimed bodies
In New York, those who live and die on the extreme edges of society are buried on an isolated island, often forgotten and unmourned. But recent legal changes aim to reduce stigma and restore their dignity.
Catalogue
- Books
The child's attitude to death / Marjorie Editha Mitchell.
Mitchell, Marjorie Editha.Date: 1966- Books
The circle of life : a search for an attitude to pain, disease, old age and death.
Walker, Kenneth, 1882-1966.Date: [1944]- Books
The circle of life : a search for an attitude to pain, disease, old age and death / by Kenneth Walker.
Walker, Kenneth, 1882-1966.Date: [1942]- Books
A Protestant legacy : attitudes to death and illness among older Aberdonians / Rory Williams.
Williams, Rory.Date: 1990- Books
Death and the enlightenment : changing attitudes to death among Christians and unbelievers in eighteenth-century France / John McManners.
McManners, John.Date: 1981