Stories
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Mass murder and marvellous medicine
Find out how arsenic has been used for good and ill, to cure and kill, for centuries.
- In pictures
The trouble with absinthe
Famed for inducing “green fairy” hallucinations, absinthe has been simultaneously lauded for its medicinal properties and condemned as the source of debasement and debauchery.
- Article
The indelible harm caused by conversion therapy
With first-hand evidence from two powerful testimonies, neurologist Jules Montague explores the destructive history of conversion therapy, a punitive treatment designed to ‘cure’ people of homosexuality.
- Book extract
The meaning of happiness
What is happiness? Tiffany Watt Smith charts how its definition has changed over time, from chance emotion to something that can be measured and controlled.
Catalogue
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Chart of the bank of Lagullus.
Rennell, James, 1742-1830.Date: [1799?]- Books
Chart of accounts for hospitals.
Date: [1966], ©1966- Books
Chart of accounts for hospitals.
American Hospital Association.Date: [1976], ©1976- Books
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Chart presentation of recent work on indicators / by George Stanley Walpole.
Walpole, George Stanley.Date: [1910?]- Ephemera
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Chart of war gases / issued by the Ministry of Home Security.
Date: 1942