Stories
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Good animals, bad humans?
Could an animal be more evolved than a human? Victorian psychologists thought that in some cases the answer could be ‘yes’.
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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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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Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations
Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.
Catalogue
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Reflexes and motor integration : Sherrington's concept of integrative action / Judith P. Swazey.
Swazey, Judith P.Date: 1969- Books
Réflexes vasomoteurs chez le chat sympathectomisé non anesthésié / par Z.M. Bacq [and others].
Date: [1939]- Books
Réflexes vasomoteurs médullaires d'origine vasculaire barosensible / par C. Heymans, J.J. Bouckaert et M. Wierzuchowski.
Heymans, Corneille, 1892-1968.Date: [1937]- Books
Reflexes of the brain / I. Sechenov. Russian text edited by K. Koshtoyants ; translated from the Russian by S. Belsky ; edited by G. Gibbons. Notes by S. Gellerstein.
Sechenov, I. M. (Ivan Mikhaĭlovich), 1829-1905.Date: [1965]- Archives and manuscripts
'Tryptamines and Spinal Cord Reflexes in Cats'
Vane, Sir John, FRS (1927-2004), PharmacologistDate: 1967Reference: PP/JRV/C/2/15Part of: Vane, Sir John Robert (1927-2004)