Stories
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Reassuring ghosts and haunted houses
Explore the perversely comforting appeal of a ghost in the house.
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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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On body horror and growing up strange
A young child’s unusual feelings, reactions and assertions are routinely dismissed by adults. Find out how manga horror stories became a source of strength, and helped them trust their adult body.
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Celebrating our soft toys
After cuddling a teddy bear cured her insomnia, Elspeth Wilson was inspired to speak to four other autistic and disabled adults, who praise the roles soft toys play in their lives.
Catalogue
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What is a doctor? Essays on medicine and human natural history / [Alex Comfort].
Comfort, Alex, 1920-2000.Date: 1981- Books
The science of human perfection : how genes became the heart of American medicine / Nathaniel Comfort.
Comfort, Nathaniel C.Date: [2012], ©2012
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A convalescing woman trying in vain to rouse her slumbering hired nurse: the cat scavenges her food and the candle sets light to the carpet. Coloured etching by N. Heideloff, 1807, after T. Rowlandson.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: October 1807Reference: 11876iPart of: Miseries of human life- Books
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Business and diversion inoffensive to God, and necessary for the comfort and support of human society. A discourse utter'd in part at Ammauskeeg-Falls, in the fishing-season. 1739. [Eight lines from Isaak Walton]
Seccombe, Joseph, 1706-1760.Date: MDCCXLIII. [1743]- Books
Being human : readings from the President's Council on Bioethics.
Date: [2003]