Stories
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Booze and bad behaviour
Our love of alcohol is like a party that’s lasted nine centuries. But there are signs that the demon drink is losing its appeal.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
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Are doctors medical detectives?
Do doctors really identify medical conditions in the same way that detectives solve crimes? Neurologist Jules Montague makes her diagnosis.
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Beating the bodysnatchers
When a rise in grave robbing called for strong measures, mortsafes became the unassailable solution. Allison C. Meier explores.
Catalogue
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In pursuit of memory : the fight against Alzheimer's / Joseph Jebelli.
Jebelli, JosephDate: 2017- Books
Report of the Committee appointed to consider what changes, if any, are desirable in the existing law, practice and procedure relating to criminal trials in which the plea of insanity as a defence is raised, and whether any and, if so, what changes should be made in the existing law and practice in respect of cases falling within the provisions of section 2 (4) of the Criminal Lunatics Act, 1884.
Great Britain. Committee on Insanity and Crime.Date: 1923- Books
Report on the psychological treatment of crime / by W. Norwood East and W. H. de B. Hubert.
East, W. Norwood (William Norwood), Sir, 1872-1953.Date: 1939- Books
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The dying speeches and behaviour of the several state prisoners that have been executed the last 300 years. With their several characters from the best historians, as Cambden, Spotswood, Clarendon, Sprat, Burnet, &c. And A Table shewing how the respective Sentences were Executed, and which of them were Mitigated, or Pardon'd. Being a proper supplement to the state-tryals.
Date: MDCCXX. [1720]- Books
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A genuine account of the life of John Rann, alias Sixteen-String Jack: who was executed November 30th. 1774, for a robbery on the highway, near Brentford; Containing His Adventures and Enterprises, his numerous Escapes from Justice, and his Amours with several Ladies. Among which is introduced some curious anecdotes of Miss Smith and Miss Roche, His Favorite Dulcineas to which is added some strictures on the penal laws, an a particular account of Lane and Trotman, executed at the same Time for the barbarous robbery of Mr. Floyd, in a Coach, near Chelsea.
Date: [1774?]