Stories
- Long read
Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
- Article
How slums make people sick
A newly gentrified corner of Bermondsey leaves little clue to its less salubrious history. But a few intrepid writers recorded the details of existence in one of London’s most squalid slums.
- 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.
- Book extract
Of incubators, orchids and artificial wombs
In this extract from Claire Horn’s new book, ‘Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth’, she traces the development of the artificial womb, soon to become a reality.
Catalogue
- Books
The recording of sickness absence in industry : (a preliminary report) / by a Sub-Committee of the Industrial Health Research Board.
Date: [1944]- Books
A study in vocational guidance carried out by the Industrial Fatigue Research Board and the National Institute of Industrial Psychology / [by Frances Gaw [and others]].
Date: 1926- Books
The use of performance tests of intelligence in vocational guidance : an investigation conducted for the National Institute of Industrial Psychology / by F.M. Earle [and others].
Date: 1929- Books
The coal fire : a research / by Margaret White Fishenden for the Manchester Corporation Air Pollution Advisory Board.
Fishenden, M. (Margaret White)Date: 1920- Books
An experimental study of certain forms of manual dexterity / by J.N. Langdon.
Langdon, J. N. (James Norman)Date: 1932