Stories
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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.
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
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Booze and bad behaviour
Our love of alcohol is like a party that’s lasted nine centuries. But there are signs that the demon drink is losing its appeal.
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Report of a Committee appointed by the Medico-Psychological Association of Great Britain and Ireland at the Annual Meeting in 1889 to inquire into the question of the systematic training of nurses and attendants on the insane. This Report was adopted at the Annual Meeting in 1890
Date: 1890Reference: RET 1/5/5/2/1/24Part of: The Retreat Archive- Books
Report of the Departmental Committee on Sterilisation (minus appendices) / with preface by The Lord Horder ; reproduced with the permission of the Controller of H.M.S.O. and obtainable from the Joint Committee on Voluntary Sterilisation.
Great Britain. Board of Control. Committee on Sterilisation.Date: 1934- Books
The effects of alcohol and some other drugs during normal and fatigued conditions / [by William McDougall and May Smith].
McDougall, William, 1871-1938.Date: 1920- Books
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Report of the Departmental Committee on Sterilisation.
Great Britain. Board of Control. Committee on Sterilisation.Date: 1934- Books
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Report of the Departmental Committee appointed by the President of the Local Government Board to inquire into the subject of vaccination expenses.
Great Britain. Local Government Board. Committee on Vaccination Expenses.Date: 1905