Stories
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Our endless quest for eternal youth
From poisonous 16th-century cosmetics to the latest “vampire facelift”, discover the fashions in unsavoury methods for improving our appearance.
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Coleridge’s hypochondria
An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.
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Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations
Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.
Catalogue
- Books
Fads and fallacies in psychiatry / by Joel Paris.
Paris, Joel, 1940-Date: 2013- Books
Fads and fallacies in the name of science / Martin Gardner.
Gardner, Martin, 1914-2010.Date: [1986?], ©1957- Books
Fads, fallacies and foolishness in medical care management and policy / T.R. Marmor.
Marmor, Theodore R.Date: [2007], ©2007- Books
Fads of an old physician : a sequel to 'Plea for a simpler life' / by George S. Keith.
Keith, George S. (George Skene), 1819-1910.Date: 1897- Books
Fads and quackery in healing : an analysis of the foibles of the healing cults, with essays on various other peculiar notions in the health field / by Morris Fisbein.
Fishbein, Morris, 1889-1976.Date: [1932], ©1932