Stories
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Mass murder and marvellous medicine
Find out how arsenic has been used for good and ill, to cure and kill, for centuries.
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Does mass media pave the way to fascism?
In the aftermath of World War II, psychoanalysts found the psychological roots of authoritarianism closer to home than was comfortable.
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Birthdays, appraisals and Harold Shipman
Our anonymous GP ponders how a prolific serial murderer has increased the workload of every family doctor.
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A wee spot of bother
Euphemisms can both appear to diminish experiences while at the same time making them easier to talk about. Carrie Hynds, who experienced the latter part of Northern Ireland’s “Troubles”, explores the relationship between language and trauma.
Catalogue
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A case of child murder : law and science in nineteenth-century Tuscany / Patrizia Guarnieri.
Guarnieri, Patrizia, 1954-Date: 1993- Books
Violent death in the city : suicide, accident, and murder in nineteenth-century Philadelphia / Roger Lane.
Lane, Roger, 1934-Date: 1979- Books
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The prayer of a true penitent for mercy; or, The publican's prayer, illustrated. A sermon, delivered at Salem, Dec. 21, 1786, previous to the execution of Isaac Coombs, an Indian, whose crime was the murder of his wife. By Joshua Spalding, A.M. Pastor of the Tabernacle Church, in Salem. (Published by desire.)
Spalding, Joshua, 1760-1825.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
Trial of Professor John W. Webster, for the murder of Dr. George Parkman in the medical college, November 23, 1849. Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk, March term. Present Chief Justice Shaw, Associate Judges Wilde, Metcalf and Dewey. Counsel for the Commonwealth - Hon. John H. Clifford, George Bemis. Counsel for the Defence - Hon. Pliny Merrick, E. D. Sohier / Stenographic report. Carefully revised and corrected.
Webster, John White, 1793-1850.Date: 1850- Archives and manuscripts
Centre for Research in Collective Psychopathology, University of Sussex
Date: 1964-1967Reference: PP/HVD/F/2/1Part of: Dicks, Henry