Stories
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How to manage your Schadenfreude
Do you sometimes enjoy witnessing others’ distress? Tiffany Watt Smith suggests five ways to manage - and even embrace - the perplexing emotion of Schadenfreude.
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The castration effect
Discover how testosterone – or the lack of it – affects the male body, from eunuch slaves to castrato singers, and on to hormone reduction in modern prostate cancer treatment.
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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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Inside the minds of Teeth’s two curators, James Peto and Emily Scott-Dearing
James Peto and Emily Scott-Dearing talk visceral reactions, their interactions and object extractions.
Catalogue
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An examination of a review, contained in the British and Foreign Medical Review, of the Medical and physiol. commentaries / by the author, Martyn Paine.
Paine, Martyn, 1794-1877.Date: 1841- Journals
The works of the learned, or, An historical account and impartial judgement of books newly printed, both foreign and domestick : to be published monthly ... By J. de la Crose.
Date: 1691-1692
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A reply to an attack by Henry I. Bowditch, M.D. upon the essay on the principal writings of P.Ch. A. Louis, M.D. as contained in the Medical and physiological commentaries by the author.
Paine, Martyn, 1794-1877.Date: 1840- Journals
Préfaces.
Date: 1987-1990
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An examination of the strictures in the New-England journal for October 1823, and in the North-American review for October 1823, on Essays on fevers, &c / by Thomas Miner and William Tully.
Miner, Thomas, 1777-1841.Date: 1823