Stories
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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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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.
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Rules, for the government of the Infirmary, Lunatic-Hospital, and public baths in Manchester : as revised and corrected, in the year M.DCC.XCI.
Date: [1791]- Pictures
Corridor conversation.
Beales, David, 1954-Date: December 2010 - January 2011Reference: 3303258i- Books
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Medical and general reports and accounts for the period 1st January to 4th July, 1948 : Ham Common, Richmond, Surrey / The Cassel Hospital for Functional Nervous Disorders.
Cassel Hospital for Functional Nervous Disorders (Richmond, England)Date: [1949?]- Pictures
A new admission.
Beales, David, 1954-Date: December 2010 - January 2011Reference: 3303257i- Pictures
A room in an attic, in which a chained snake stands at a locked door. Watercolour by D. Marsden, 1952.
Marsden, D., active approximately 1951-1953.Date: 1952Reference: 3001105iPart of: Adamson Collection