Stories
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Yoga adapts to time and place
A yoga teacher in 1930s India inspired today’s transnational practice with his spectacular fusion of tradition and innovation.
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The healing power of breathing
The healing powers of different breathing methods are said to help with a range of health challenges, from asthma to PTSD. Effie Webb traces their spiritual origins and explores the modern proliferation of breathwork therapies.
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What is hysteria?
Hysteria has long been associated with fanciful myths, but its history reveals how it has been used to control women’s behaviour and bodies
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How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory
A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Patzig - Phillis
Date: 1950-1988Reference: PP/MLV/C/16/5Part of: Vogt, Dr Marthe Louise (1903-2003)- Archives and manuscripts
'Correspondence with C A Hoare, FRS [Wellcome Museum of Medical Science] et al on (Babesia etc) - Babesia papers - Hume and Ruebush': Correspondence
Date: 1962-1979Reference: PP/PCG/D/23Part of: Garnham, Professor Percy Cyril Claude- Books
Control of communicable diseases in man : an official report of the American Public Health Association.
Date: 1990- Books
Chemical methods for the control of vectors and pests of public health importance / edited by D.C. Chavasse and H.H. Yap.
Date: [1997]- Archives and manuscripts
Publications by Coopers concerning Veterinary / Agricultural matters and related topics
Date: c 1883 - 1980Reference: WF/C/M/PB/20Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd