Stories
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Rocking psychiatry with R D Laing
Turn on, tune in, drop out. Discover how six rock songs from the 1960s and 1970s link the ideas of famous therapist R D Laing with the era’s counterculture.
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Crime drama and the realistic cadaver
Today we are accustomed to the increasingly realistic look of dead bodies in on-screen dramas. Special-effects expert Hildegunn M S Traa reveals how crime and morgue scenes reflect the social idea of death.
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Where does violence come from?
The popular understanding of certain ideas in psychology have become so embedded that it’s easy to blame the parents when a young person commits a crime. Laura Bui looks to the past for evidence.
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Yoga gets physical
Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.
Catalogue
- Books
Popular culture in medieval Cairo / Boaz Shoshan.
Shoshan, Boaz.Date: 1993- Books
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Popular culture in early modern Europe / Peter Burke.
Burke, Peter, 1937-Date: 1978- Books
Popular culture in early modern Europe / Peter Burke.
Burke, Peter, 1937-Date: 1978- Books
Popular culture in England, c.1500-1850 / edited by Tim Harris.
Date: 1995- Books
Popular culture and knowledge of the body : infancy and the medical anthropologist / Franc̦oise Loux.
Loux, FrançoiseDate: 1987