Stories
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The indelible harm caused by conversion therapy
With first-hand evidence from two powerful testimonies, neurologist Jules Montague explores the destructive history of conversion therapy, a punitive treatment designed to ‘cure’ people of homosexuality.
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Female masturbation and the perils of pleasure
Dr Kate Lister exposes the brutal 19th-century ‘cures’ for women who indulged in masturbation.
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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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The shocking ‘treatment’ to make lesbians straight
Being a lesbian has never been a crime in the UK, but 50 years ago, some psychologists experimented with treatments to try to ‘cure’ women of their orientation. Find out what this involved.
Catalogue
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Disorders of the male sexual organs / By Eugene Fuller.
Fuller, Eugene, 1858-1930.Date: 1895- Books
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A repertory of gonorrhoea : with the concomitant symptoms of the genital and urinary organs / compiled by Samuel A. Kimball.
Kimball, Samuel A.Date: 1888- Books
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The male generative organs in health and disease, from infancy to old age : being a complete practical treatise on the anatomy and physiology of the male system ... / by Frederick Hollick.
Hollick, Frederick, 1818-1900.Date: 1850- Books
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A practical treatise on diseases of the genitals of the male, with a preliminary essay on the history, nature, and general treatment of lues venerea / [John Maddox Titley].
Titley, John Maddox.Date: 1829- Books
Tumors of the male genitalia and the urinary system / by thirty authors ; edited by George T. Pack and Irving M. Ariel.
Date: [1962]