Stories
- Article
Communities of cross-feeders
A desire to help leads some women to “cross-feed” – breastfeed other parents’ babies for free. Alev Scott delves into the emotions behind this altruistic act.
- 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.
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A history of mindfulness
Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.
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A brief history of ventilation
As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.
Catalogue
- Books
Science, (anti-) communism and diplomacy : the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs in the early Cold War / edited by Alison Kraft, Carola Sachse.
Date: [2020]- Books
The people's health : health intervention and delivery in Mao's China, 1949-1983 / Zhou Xun.
Zhou, Xun, 1968-Date: [2020]- Videos
- Online
The evolution of community medicine. Part 3, The sanitary era.
Date: 1984- Books
Communicating the history of medicine : perspectives on audiences and impact / edited by Solveig Jülich and Sven Widmalm.
Date: 2020- Books
Komunikace s postiženými - hluchoněmými / Ludmila Hlaváčková.
Hlaváčková, Ludmila.Date: [2002]