Stories
- Article
Making sense of senses lost
In rapid succession, Steve Barker suddenly lost sight and hearing on his left side. The effect on how he perceives the world has been profound.
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How electromagnetic therapy inspired me
Poet Sarah James explores how repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation treated her depression and influenced her art.
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Crime drama and the realistic cadaver
Today we are accustomed to the increasingly realistic look of dead bodies in on-screen dramas. Special-effects expert Hildegunn M S Traa reveals how crime and morgue scenes reflect the social idea of death.
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Words of hope and anger
Author and spoken word poet Penny Pepper remembers her childhood dreams, and speaks out against the barriers society uses to prevent disabled people from fulfilling their potential.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Dark Adaptation
Date: 1942-1944Reference: PP/WDP/D/2/6Part of: Paton, Sir William Drummond Macdonald (1917-1993), Pharmacologist- Archives and manuscripts
Chemical and nervous factors in dark adaptation
Date: 1952Reference: PP/RUS/C/1/1Part of: Rushton, William- Books
Nutritional factors in dark adaptation / by C.P. Stewart ..., Biochemist, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh.
Stewart, C. P.Date: 1942- Books
Reports of the Committee upon the Physiology of Vision. 2, Dark adaptation (a review of the literature) / by Dorothy Adams.
Medical Research Council (Great Britain). Committee on the Physiology of Vision.Date: 1929- Books
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On the power, wisdom, and goodness of God as manifested in the adaptation of external nature to the moral and intellectual constitution of man / By the Rev. Thomas Chalmers.
Chalmers, Thomas, 1780-1847.Date: 1834