Stories
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A history of mindfulness
Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.
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Disturbed minds and disruptive bodies
Prison officers tried to regulate women’s minds and bodies and maintain a new disciplinary routine in the second half of the 1800s.
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How trauma affects the body and mind
The long and devastating aftermath of an attack have given writer and broadcaster Bidisha unique insight into the suffering of other victims. Here she explores survival and healing in those who have experienced trauma.
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Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs
The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.
Catalogue
- Books
Zhou Tian Gong or the cosmic orbit : 'the circulation of Qi in the body' / Kunio Miura.
Miura, Kunio.Date: 1995- Archives and manuscripts
'Would You Mind?' installation in The Institute of Sexology exhibition, Wellcome Collection
Bartlett, Neil, 1958-Date: 2015Reference: WT/NVB- Books
History of the body / Willemijn Ruberg.
Ruberg, Willemijn, 1975-Date: 2020- Books
Brain, mind and consciousness in the history of neuroscience / C.U.M. Smith, Harry Whitaker, editors.
Date: [2014]- Videos
This true book of ours : the human body.
Date: 1992