Stories
- Article
When self-deception becomes global hoax
Being deceived isn’t always a case of believing someone else’s lie. Experiments have shown that many of us can be manipulated into accepting our own fictions as true.
- Article
Drugs in Victorian Britain
Many common remedies were taken throughout the 19th century, with more people than ever using them. What was the social and cultural context of this development?
- Article
Acid and the sexual psychonauts
How LSD fuelled one woman’s journey of sexual self-discovery in the late 1950s.
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Busting myths about turkey-baster babies
The popular idea of sex-free, turkey-baster-led conception has been around since the 1970s. Christine Ro goes beyond the utensils drawer to find out if it’s ever really happened.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Records of self-experimentation by Roger Altounyan
Date: 1957-1978Reference: PP/RCA/C.4Part of: Roger Edward Collingwood Altounyan FRCP (1922-1987)- Videos
Medical mavericks - the history of self-experimentation. Part 1, Anaesthesia.
Date: 2007- Videos
Medical mavericks - the history of self-experimentation. Part 2, Discovering vaccines.
Date: 2007- Videos
Medical mavericks - the history of self-experimentation. Part 4, Beating infection.
Date: 2007- Videos
Medical mavericks - the history of self-experimentation. Part 3, Diet and disease.
Date: 2007