Stories
- Book extract
The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
- Article
Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs
The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.
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Fees, funding and the NHS
In the 1950s, dramatic political battles over NHS charges brought down a government. But public confidence in the service still grew.
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Yoga gets physical
Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Haymaker - Hill, D
Date: 1948-1986Reference: PP/MLV/C/8/3Part of: Vogt, Dr Marthe Louise (1903-2003)- Books
Canada's nursing sisters / G.W.L. Nicholson.
Nicholson, G. W. L. (Gerald William Lingen), 1902-1980.Date: [1975], ©1975- Books
Schweizer Chemieunternehmen im "Dritten Reich" / Lukas Straumann, Daniel Wildmann ; herausgegeben von der Unabhängigen Expertenkommission Schweiz - Zweiter Weltkrieg.
Straumann, Lukas.Date: [2001], ©2001- Books
Arm, weiblich - wahnsinnig? : Patientinnen der Königlichen Heilanstalt Zwiefalten im Spiegel der Einweisungsgutachten von 1812 bis 1871 / Sylvelyn Hähner-Rombach.
Hähner-Rombach, Sylvelyn, 1959-Date: [1995], ©1995- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 3 ['Letter Book 3']
Date: Mar 1890 - Nov 1896Reference: WF/E/01/01/03Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd