Stories
- Article
Vivekananda’s journey
How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.
- Article
Aphasia and drawing elephants
When Thomas Parkinson investigated the history of “speech science”, he discovered an unexpected link between empire, elephants and aphasia.
- 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.
- Article
The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria
A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.
Catalogue
- Books
- Online
Ritual and metaphor : sacrifice in the Bible / [edited by] Christian A. Eberhart.
Date: [2011], ©2011- Books
Die christlichen literaturen des Orients / von Anton Baumstark.
Baumstark, Anton, 1872-1948.Date: 1911- Books
Photii Bibliotheca / ex recensione Immanuelis Bekkeri.
Photius I, Saint, Patriarch of Constantinople, approximately 820-approximately 891.Date: 1824-1825- Books
Civic and medical worlds in early modern England : performing barbery and surgery / Eleanor Decamp.
Decamp, Eleanor Sian, 1984-Date: [2016]- Books
Making sense of sex : attitudes towards sexuality in early Jewish and Christian literature / William Loader.
Loader, William R. G., 1944-Date: 2013