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Does mass media pave the way to fascism?

In the aftermath of World War II, psychoanalysts found the psychological roots of authoritarianism closer to home than was comfortable.

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The ‘undesirable epileptic’

Abused in her marriage for being 'a sick woman', Aparna Nair looked to history to make sense of the response to her epilepsy. She discovered how centuries of fear and discrimination were often endorsed by science and legislation.

  • In pictures

Ludwig Guttmann and the birth of the Paralympics

As millions across the world enjoy this year’s Paralympics, discover how the Paralympian movement started life – with an event held by the visionary neurosurgeon Ludwig Guttmann.

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Breaking the rules of online dating

Artists are taking on the trolls of Tinder and the gremlins of Grindr to question the limits of online dating.

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  • POW's in Germany
  • War: France and Germany, 1870.
  • Katharinen Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany. Coloured lithograph.
  • Bad Peterstal, Black Forest, Germany. Lithograph.
  • War on germs during war with Germany.
  • Ernst Henry Starling in Germany aged 20.
  • The spas of Germany / [A.B. Granville].
  • Leipzig, Germany: medical historians: group portrait. Photograph, 1929.
  • Leipzig, Germany: medical historians: group portrait. Photograph, 1929.
  • Leipzig, Germany: medical historians: group portrait. Photograph, 1929.
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