Stories
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The anatomy of a brain dissection
Dissecting the brain after death not only helps confirm a diagnosis, but it can also teach us so much more about the symptoms and causes of brain diseases and how to treat them.
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When self-deception becomes global hoax
Being deceived isn’t always a case of believing someone else’s lie. Experiments have shown that many of us can be manipulated into accepting our own fictions as true.
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Making sunstroke insanity
Medical historian Dr Kristin Hussey takes a closer look at sunstroke and mental illness, and how, in the late 19th century, they connected at the crossroads of colonial science and the idea of whiteness.
- Book extract
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.
Catalogue
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Human brain : pathology - some examples.
Date: 1997- Books
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Some cases illustrative of the pathology of the brain / by Richard Powell.
Powell, Richard, 1767-1834.Date: 1815- Books
The pathology of the brain in Rhodesian trypanosomiasis / by H.G. Calwell.
Calwell, H. G.Date: 1937- Books
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An account of the appearances observed in the dissection of two of three individuals presumed to have perished in the storm of the 3d, and whose bodies were discovered in the vicinity of Leith on the morning of the 4th, November 1821 : with some reflections on the pathology of the brain / by George Kellie.
Kellie, George, -1829.Date: [1824]- Archives and manuscripts
Medical Womens' Federation - Mental Health Research Fund
Date: 1947-1988Reference: PP/MLV/C/13/10Part of: Vogt, Dr Marthe Louise (1903-2003)