Stories
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Notes on need
Writing about bodies, and hearing the stories of others’ bodies, Johanna Hedva also heard, over and over, how people blame themselves – and are encouraged to do this – for illness and disability.
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Hamlet, the melancholic Prince of Denmark
Hamlet clearly demonstrates an excess of black bile and is arguably the most famous literary melancholic.
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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.
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Bubbles of history
Since the 1960s, scientists have been able to study the air from past centuries by analysing particles in Arctic ice samples. But as the polar ice melts, the future of this research is changing.
Catalogue
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Body temperature : its changes with environment, disease, and therapy / [Wilbur Arthur Selle].
Selle, Wilbur Arthur, 1902-Date: [1952]- Archives and manuscripts
Medical Research Council: Correspondence mostly with Sir Harold Himsworth, Secretary MRC, including papers relating to the Body Temperature Research Unit
Date: 1956-1968Reference: PP/GWP/B/6Part of: Pickering, Sir George White- Archives and manuscripts
Regulation of Body Temperature in Health and Disease. Lancet, 1958, Jan 4 & 11, pp.1-9, pp.59-64
Date: 1958Reference: PP/GWP/F/92Part of: Pickering, Sir George White- Books
Fever and the regulation of body temperature / by Eugene F. Du Bois.
Du Bois, Eugene F. (Eugene Floyd), 1882-1959.Date: [1948], ©1948- Books
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Observations on the temperature of the body in the insane / by T. S. Clouston, M.D.
Clouston, T. S. (Thomas Smith), 1840-1915.Date: [1868]