Stories
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Uncovering experiences of dementia
Focusing on three 19th-century women’s case notes, Millie van der Byl Williams explores how our definition of dementia has changed.
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Photographs as evidence of gender identity and sexuality
Intriguing photographs from sexologists’ archives suggest they could have helped people explore their gender identity and sexuality.
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Disability, education and prejudice
In the 1960s and 1970s, thalidomide survivors had to fight for a proper education. If they weren’t brought up in institutions, they were often viewed as objects of curiosity, encountering verbal and sometimes physical abuse, both at school and in the world beyond.
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Can isolation lead to manipulation?
Military-funded researchers wanted to know if isolation techniques could facilitate brainwashing. One neuroscientist suggested that it might improve our own control over our minds.
Catalogue
- Books
Research institutes in transition / B.J.R. van der Meulen, A. Rip.
Meulen, Barend van der, 1964-Date: [1994], ©1994- Books
Report of the committee established to review medical research institutes in Australia / National Health and Medical Research Council.
National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia)Date: 1982- Books
Centres, bureaux & research institutes : the directory of UK concentrations of effort, information and expertise / edited by C.M. Edwards.
Date: 2000- Film
Mellanby films. Compilation 10, Two more research institutes in India.
Date: 1951- Videos
Mellanby films. Compilation 10, Two more research institutes in India.
Date: 1951