Stories
- Article
Deciding a date for the end of the world
When will the world end? Charlotte Sleigh explores how our obsession with dates and dramatic imaginings of the end can distract us from the dangers slowly creeping up on us.
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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.
- Book extract
The meaning of happiness
What is happiness? Tiffany Watt Smith charts how its definition has changed over time, from chance emotion to something that can be measured and controlled.
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The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
Catalogue
- Journals
Reports on population/ family planning / issued by the Population Council and the International Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction, Columbia University.
Date: 1969-- Books
International encyclopedia of population / editor in chief, John A. Ross (Center for Population and Family Health, International Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction, Faculty of Medicine, Columbia University).
Date: [1982], ©1982- Books
Chronic childhood illness : assessment of outcome a conference sponsored by the John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, May 1-2, 1974 / Gilman D. Grave and I. Barry Pless, editors.
Date: 1976- Books
International inventory of information on induced abortion / Emily C. Moore-Čavar.
Moore-Čavar, Emily Campbell.Date: [1974]- Archives and manuscripts
Managerial decision-making: International research
Date: 1970sReference: SA/TIH/B/2/50/1Part of: Tavistock Institute of Human Relations