Stories
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Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high
The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.
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Tripping for spiritualism and science
Getting high in the name of religion or creativity has been practised for centuries. Now it seems hallucinogenics could help treat mental illnesses too.
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Witches
Many of the women persecuted as witches in the 16th-century “witch craze” were over 50 and exhibited signs of menopause. Helen Foster suggests that the stigma of the wicked witch still affects older women and how they deal with menopause.
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The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria
A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.
Catalogue
- Books
Am I normal? : the 200-year search for normal people (and why they don't exist) / Sarah Chaney.
Chaney, SarahDate: 2022- Audio
The language of pain.
Date: 2015- Digital Images
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Brugmansia suaveolens 'Pink Beauty'
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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Brugmansia suaveolens'Pink Beauty'
Dr Henry Oakeley- Books
Models of madness : psychological, social, and biological approaches to psychosis / edited by John Read and Jacqui Dillon.
Date: 2013