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Louis Wain’s cryptic cats
Once famous for his quirky cat illustrations, today Louis Wain is often portrayed as a ‘psychotic’ artist whose illness can be mapped out through his drawings. Here Bryony Benge-Abbott takes a more rounded view.
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Lovesickness and ‘The Love Thief’
An 11th-century poem of love, lust and possibly gruesome death still resonates today.
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The tower in fiction, film and life
The high-rise estates born of postwar idealism soon became symbols of crime and squalor. But after one terrible tragedy, public bodies are being forced to rethink our towers.
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You know the drill
Richard Barnett opens wide the true meaning of a healthy mouth.
Catalogue
- Books
Public health and the risk factor : a history of an uneven medical revolution / William G. Rothstein.
Rothstein, William G.Date: 2003- Books
Colleagues in discovery : one hundred years of improving respiratory health / by Joseph Wallace.
Wallace, Joseph (Lecturer in industrial relations)Date: [2005], ©2005- Books
The pursuit of perfection : the promise and perils of medical enhancement / Sheila M. Rothman and David J. Rothman.
Rothman, Sheila M.Date: [2003], ©2003- Books
Vital harmonies : molecular biology and our shared humanity / Erwin Fleissner.
Fleissner, Erwin.Date: [2004], ©2004- Books
Prozac on the couch : prescribing gender in the era of wonder drugs / Jonathan Michel Metzl.
Metzl, Jonathan, 1964-Date: [2003], ©2003