Stories
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Eugenics and the welfare state
Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.
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What happy endings teach us in childhood
Kate Wilkinson explores why, in quest fiction, good must triumph over evil, and what that means both for childhood dreams and adult realities.
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Can isolation lead to manipulation?
Military-funded researchers wanted to know if isolation techniques could facilitate brainwashing. One neuroscientist suggested that it might improve our own control over our minds.
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The unexpected parallels between Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Wellcome Collection
With the news of a sequel in development, Russell Dornan explores parallels between ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ and Wellcome Collection.
Catalogue
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Medical adviser : a full and plain treatise on the theory and practice of medicine suited to planters and families / by Rezin Thompson.
Thompson, Rezin.Date: 1860- Books
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Treatise on fever : its cause, phenomena, and treatment. With an appendix, containing views on some female diseases, some diseases of children / by Rezin Thompson.
Thompson, Rezin.Date: 1859- Books
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A Treatise on fever : its cause, phenomena, and treatment ; with an appendix, containing views on some female diseases, some diseases of children, etc. / by Rezin Thompson.
Thompson, Rezin.Date: 1860, ©1859- Books
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Abrégé des leçons élémentaires de physique / de MM. Victor Baume et Poirrier.
Baume, Victor.Date: 1847- Books
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The tongue of time, and star of the states : a system of human nature, with the phenomena of the heavens and earth. : American antiquities, remains of giants, geology, volcanoes, Egyptian and Indian magic, diet, dress, drinks, diseases, sleep, somnambulism, trances, resuscitation. : Also an account of persons with two souls, and of five persons who told colors by the touch / by Joseph Comstock, M.D.
Comstock, Joseph.Date: 1840