Stories
- Article
‘Jessy’, a film about cerebral palsy
How the 1950s British film industry portrayed this disease.
- Article
Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
- Article
Why the world needs collectors
Those who collect play an important role as “facilitators of curiosity”, says Anna Faherty.
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The shocking ‘treatment’ to make lesbians straight
Being a lesbian has never been a crime in the UK, but 50 years ago, some psychologists experimented with treatments to try to ‘cure’ women of their orientation. Find out what this involved.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Parkinson's Disease Society art competition calendar
Date: 1990Reference: PP/RSI/B/1/6/15Part of: Rita Simon Collection- Books
The causal basis of the current disease classification / Henrik R. Wulff.
Wulff, Henrik R., 1932-Date: 1984- Books
Psychiatric classification : the status of so-called "diagnostic criteria" / Helge Malmgren.
Malmgren, Helge, 1945-Date: 1984- Books
International classification of impairments, disabilities, and handicaps : a manual of classification relating to the consequences of disease ... / World Health Organisation.
Date: 1980- Archives and manuscripts
The definition and classification of disease
Date: 1928-1945Reference: PP/FPW/B.91Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)