Stories
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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 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.
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Faces from the archives
Meet some of the lesser-known but no less extraordinary figures in the history of medicine, through a series of original portraits.
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The extraction of the excruciating bladder stones
Among those vying to find alternatives to major surgery for bladder stones, young doctor Jean Civiale stood out, painstakingly honing a method that was to become the norm.
Catalogue
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Technique du traitement de la coxalgie / par le Dr Calot.
Calot, F. (François), 1861-1944.Date: 1904
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Technique du traitement des tumeurs blanches / par F. Calot.
Calot, F. (François), 1861-1944.Date: 1906
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Technique d'électrophysiologie.
Weiss, Georges, 1859-1931.Date: [1892]- Film
Technique of abdominal prostatectomy.
Date: 1971- Film
Technique of ether anaesthesia.
Date: 1963
