Stories
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The building as tool of healing
When we’re ill, it’s not just medical care that helps to treat us. Architects have discovered that the right environment can play an important part too.
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Can isolation lead to manipulation?
Military-funded researchers wanted to know if isolation techniques could facilitate brainwashing. One neuroscientist suggested that it might improve our own control over our minds.
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Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations
Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.
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The anatomy of a brain dissection
Dissecting the brain after death not only helps confirm a diagnosis, but it can also teach us so much more about the symptoms and causes of brain diseases and how to treat them.
Catalogue
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With our own hands : research for Third World development; Canada's contribution through the International Development Research Centre, 1970-1985 / preface by Bradford Morse ; introductory chapter by Hugh Wynne-Edwards.
Date: 1986- Books
A decade of reform : science & technology policy in China / International Development Research Centre, Canada, State Science and Technology Commission, People's Republic of China.
Date: [1997], ©1997- Books
Safety of novel foods : report of a working group meeting 15 June 1984 / prepared by: International Development Research Centre ; rapporteur: Dyson Rose.
Rose, Dyson.Date: [1984?]- Journals
The IDRC reports / International Development Research Centre = Le CRDI informe / Centre de recherches pour le développement international.
Date: 1972-- Books
Tsetse control : the role of pathogens, parasites and predators report of a scientific advisory group convened at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada, 25-29 March 1974.
Date: [1974]