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What is violence?

Criminologist Laura Bui explores her early understanding of violence and outlines its definition and wider consequences.

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Making sunstroke insanity

Medical historian Dr Kristin Hussey takes a closer look at sunstroke and mental illness, and how, in the late 19th century, they connected at the crossroads of colonial science and the idea of whiteness.

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  • A physician examining an elderly patient in his surgery. Wood engraving by Gunning King, 1906.
  • A physician examining an elderly patient in his surgery. Wood engraving by Gunning King, 1906.
  • A soldier complaining of pain in his abdomen to a corporal, the corporal retorts that he has a stomach - only officers have abdomens. Wood engraving by Gunning King, 1912.
  • A neighbour checking on an old sick man and enquiring about what the doctor has said, the old man retorts that he has recommended exercise. Wood engraving by G. King, 1907.
  • A doctor taking the pulse of an old lady who informs him that there is a lot of insanity in her family. Wood engraving by G. King, 1913.
  • A nurse attempts to wake up one of her patients who has just died. Wood engraving by G. King, 1906.
  • A doctor asking a patient's wife if she has taken his temperature; she replies that she used the barometer to take his temperature and that, as he was very dry she gave him some beer. Wood engraving by G. King, 1911.
  • A patient trying to convince his unsympathetic doctor that a sprained neck is a worse condition than a broken one. Wood engraving by G. King, 1912.
  • An old lady being frank about her financial situation with an affluent doctor. Wood engraving by G. King, 1909.
  • Two female doctors discussing a patient. Reproduction of a drawing after G. King, 1907.
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