Stories
- Book extract
Inside the Cold War mind
Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.
- Article
How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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A wee spot of bother
Euphemisms can both appear to diminish experiences while at the same time making them easier to talk about. Carrie Hynds, who experienced the latter part of Northern Ireland’s “Troubles”, explores the relationship between language and trauma.
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Sockets and stumps
Historian Emily Mayhew has met soldiers who have survived the seemingly unsurvivable. Here, she explores the part prosthetics play in the process of military rehabilitation.
Catalogue
- Books
Civil War medicine / by Stewart Brooks.
Brooks, Stewart M. (Stewart Marshall)Date: [1966], ©1966- Books
Civil War medicine, 1861-1865 / by C. Keith Wilbur.
Wilbur, C. Keith, 1923-2009.Date: [1998], ©1998- Archives and manuscripts
Civil War Times Illustrated June 1978, containing an article "on the duties of the surgeon in action" by Richard Vickery
Date: 1978Reference: RAMC/1419/2Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Books
Civil War medicine : challenges and triumphs / Alfred Jay Bollet.
Bollet, Alfred J.Date: [2002], ©2002- Books
Civil War medicine : an illustrated history / Mark J. Schaadt.
Schaadt, Mark J.Date: [1998], ©1998