Stories
- Article
Heating up and drying out
Menopause doesn’t have to signify old age, but when your body feels like it’s letting you down, it’s hard not to believe that your useful life may be over.
- Article
Mask, ritual and fertility
Today many of us learn about fertility, conception and pregnancy online. But that wasn’t always the way. Discover how masks and rituals played an important educational role.
- Book extract
Renaissance women and their killer cosmetics
In this extract from ‘How to be a Renaissance Woman’, Jill Burke delves into a complex world of beauty products, poison and patriarchy – and reveals the impossible contradictions of femininity faced by 16th-century women.
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The rise and fall of a medical mesmerist
Uncover the fascinating story of the doctor who popularised hypnotism as a medical technique, and could name Dickens among his famous friends.
Catalogue
- Books
Handbook of humor research / edited by Paul E. McGhee and Jeffrey H. Goldstein.
Date: [1983], ©1983- Books
The psychology of medical satire / by Isidor H. Coriat.
Coriat, Isador H. (Isador Henry), 1875-1943.Date: 1921- Books
An address on the psychology of joking / delivered at the opening of the Medical Society of London, October 1887 by [John Hughlings Jackson].
Jackson, J. Hughlings (John Hughlings), 1835-1911.Date: 1932- Books
The doctor's leisure hour : facts and fancies of interest to the doctor and his patient / Charles Wells Moulton, general editor ; arranged by Porter Davies.
Date: 1904- Books
Medicine is the best laughter / edited and compiled by Gideon Bosker.
Date: [1995], ©1995