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The history of brainwashing

Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.

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Naked, not nude

Classicist Caroline Vout argues that it’s time to take the dust covers off the Ancient Greeks and Romans, and to encounter their bodies not nude, but naked.

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The 200-year search for normal people

Sarah Chaney poses the question we’ve likely all asked at some point in our lives: 'Am I normal?’, and explores whether normality even exists.

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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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  • Anatomical tables with explanations, and an abridgement of the practice of midwifery : with a view to illustrate a treatise on that subject, and collection of cases.
  • Anatomical tables with explanations, and an abridgement of the practice of midwifery : with a view to illustrate a treatise on that subject, and collection of cases.
  • Anatomical tables with explanations, and an abridgement of the practice of midwifery : with a view to illustrate a treatise on that subject, and collection of cases.
  • Anatomical tables with explanations, and an abridgement of the practice of midwifery : with a view to illustrate a treatise on that subject, and collection of cases.
  • Anatomical tables with explanations, and an abridgement of the practice of midwifery : with a view to illustrate a treatise on that subject, and collection of cases.
  • [The Canon ... a system of medicine, to which is added his compendium of Aristotelian philosophy, entitled al-Najāt, an abridgement of his larger work al-Shifā.] [Kitāb al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (romanized form)] / [Avicenna].
  • [The Canon ... a system of medicine, to which is added his compendium of Aristotelian philosophy, entitled al-Najāt, an abridgement of his larger work al-Shifā.] [Kitāb al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (romanized form)] / [Avicenna].
  • [The Canon ... a system of medicine, to which is added his compendium of Aristotelian philosophy, entitled al-Najāt, an abridgement of his larger work al-Shifā.] [Kitāb al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (romanized form)] / [Avicenna].
  • [The Canon ... a system of medicine, to which is added his compendium of Aristotelian philosophy, entitled al-Najāt, an abridgement of his larger work al-Shifā.] [Kitāb al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (romanized form)] / [Avicenna].
  • [The Canon ... a system of medicine, to which is added his compendium of Aristotelian philosophy, entitled al-Najāt, an abridgement of his larger work al-Shifā.] [Kitāb al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (romanized form)] / [Avicenna].
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