Stories
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The meaning of happiness
What is happiness? Tiffany Watt Smith charts how its definition has changed over time, from chance emotion to something that can be measured and controlled.
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Society, not Covid-19, makes us vulnerable
Rick Burgess coped with the death of his mother in February 2020 by immersing himself in the task of protecting his community from Covid-19 and challenging the government's failure to protect and support elderly and Disabled people during the pandemic.
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Can our sexual desires be transformed?
In the 1950s, many psychiatrists thought that homosexuality could be reformed. One found that it couldn’t – and his discoveries led to a change in the law.
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Finding a cure for homesickness
While technology can mitigate some aspects of homesickness, other components of home are harder to replicate. Find out how 21st-century studies are helping homesickness sufferers find silver linings in their new situation.
Catalogue
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The road of food habits in the Mediterranean area : Naples, 26-30 May 1997 : proceedings of the international congress : 7th meeting of the International Commission of Anthropology of Food, body of the I.U.A.E.S. / edited by Massimo Cresta and Vito Teti.
International Commission on Anthropology of Food and Food Problems. International Congress 1997 : Naples, Italy)Date: 1998- Books
Constructive drinking : perspectives on drink from anthropology / edited by Mary Douglas.
Date: 1987- Books
Food science in developing countries : a selection of unsolved problems / compiled by the Advisory Committee on Technology Innovation of the Board on Science and Technology for International Development, Commission on International Relations.
Date: 1974- Books
Diet and disease : in traditional and developing societies / edited by G.A. Harrison and J.C. Waterlow.
Date: 1990- Books
Medical anthropology in ecological perspective / Ann McElroy, Patricia K. Townsend, University of Buffalo ; with contributions by Pamela L. Erickson, University of Connecticut ... [and five others].
McElroy, AnnDate: [2009]