Stories
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Making sunstroke insanity
Medical historian Dr Kristin Hussey takes a closer look at sunstroke and mental illness, and how, in the late 19th century, they connected at the crossroads of colonial science and the idea of whiteness.
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Medics and the bomb
Would a nuclear attack on the UK overwhelm the NHS? At the height of the Cold War, despite government optimism, medics predicted doom.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
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The making of ‘Quacks’
How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?
Catalogue
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On the naming and classification of mental diseases and defects / by Thomas Laycock.
Laycock, Thomas, 1812-1876.Date: 1863- Books
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The moral treatment of the insane : a lecture / by W.A.F. Browne.
Browne, W. A. F. (William Alexander Francis), 1806-1885.Date: 1864- Journals
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The Asylum journal of mental science.
Date: 1853-1858- Books
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The connection between tuberculosis and insanity / by T.S. Clouston.
Clouston, T. S. (Thomas Smith), 1840-1915.Date: 1863- Books
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On hereditary insanity / by Hugh Grainger Stewart.
Stewart, Hugh Grainger.Date: 1864