Stories
- Article
A history of mindfulness
Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.
- Article
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.
- 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.
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Parasites and pests from the medieval to the modern
Humans have been reluctant hosts to a plethora of unpleasant parasites for centuries. And medieval evidence shows our modern distaste for these little irritations is just as ancient.
Catalogue
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Biosecurity - stopping the spread of disease.
Date: 2001- Books
Stitches in time : the story of the clothes we wear / Lucy Adlington.
Adlington, Lucy, 1970-Date: 2015- Books
Consumptive chic : a history of beauty, fashion, and disease / Carolyn A. Day.
Day, CarolynDate: [2017]- Videos
Health and clothing.
Date: [1928]- Videos
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Health and clothing.
Date: [1928]