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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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Epidemic threats and racist legacies

Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.

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Birth, babies and boxes of memories

With memories of her baby in neonatal intensive care still fresh, Erin Beeston decides to unearth the poignant objects her family kept following births, going back as far as Victorian times.

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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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  • John Williams. Photograph by Elliott & Fry.
  • John Wesley. Mezzotint by J. Faber, junior, 1743, after J. Williams.
  • John Wesley. Mezzotint by J. Faber, junior, 1743, after J. Williams.
  • John Wasdale. Coloured mezzotint by E. Bell, 1797, after S. Williams.
  • On cancer of the uterus : being the Harveian Lectures for 1886 / by John Williams.
  • John Wesley. Photogravure by Waterlow & Sons after J. Faber, junior, 1743, after J. Williams.
  • John Williams, a member of the Tonkawa tribe. Platinum print by F.A. Rinehart, 1898.
  • The 'London Burkers': John Bishop (left), Thomas Williams (centre) and James May (right). Photograph after the 1831 original engraving.
  • John Glaisyer a Quaker anointing a dog with burning vitriol oil; implying a satirical attack on the Quaker movement. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1806.
  • John Williams, a bookseller stands in the pillory in the Palace Yard, Westminster, surrounded by a cheering crowd. Engraving with ten verses in five columns below, 1765.
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