Stories
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The joy of playing hide-and-seek with rats
Playing hide-and-seek with lab rats has shown scientists that joy can be a great motivator for learning and social interaction – and not just for rats.
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Dancing for joy
Dancing is a mood enhancer, it increases social bonding and it improves creativity. Maybe you really can dance all your troubles away.
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A history of gestation outside the body
It’s been over 400 years since a Swiss alchemist theorised that foetuses could develop outside the womb. Claire Horn examines incubator technology past and present, and explores the possibilities recent prototypes might bring.
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The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.
Catalogue
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The vanities of Dr. Ruysch.
Date: 1997- Books
Models of madness : psychological, social, and biological approaches to psychosis / edited by John Read and Jacqui Dillon.
Date: 2013- Books
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On the influence of sea-voyages on the human body, and their value in the treatment of consumption / by C. Faber.
Faber, C.B.Date: [1876-1877]- Journals
Body & society.
Date: 1995-- Books
The body reader : essential social and cultural readings / edited by Lisa Jean Moore and Mary Kosut.
Date: [2010], ©2010