Stories
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Raising a baby in prison
Gary’s second child spent much of her babyhood in a prison mother-and-baby unit, after his wife was given a custodial sentence. Here he explores the family’s experiences of that time.
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The ‘undesirable epileptic’
Abused in her marriage for being 'a sick woman', Aparna Nair looked to history to make sense of the response to her epilepsy. She discovered how centuries of fear and discrimination were often endorsed by science and legislation.
- Book extract
Inside the Cold War mind
Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.
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Busting myths about turkey-baster babies
The popular idea of sex-free, turkey-baster-led conception has been around since the 1970s. Christine Ro goes beyond the utensils drawer to find out if it’s ever really happened.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
F. B. Power's Death - letters from the United States Department of Agriculture
Date: 1927Reference: WF/E/01/06/14Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
Bibliography of biography 1970-1984 / the British Library, Bibliographic Services Division and the United States Library of Congress.
British Library. Bibliographic Services Division.Date: 1985- Books
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Sketch of the life and character of Samuel George Morton, M.D. : lecture introductory to a course on anatomy and physiology in the Medical Department of Pennsylvania College delivered October 13, 1851 / by William R. Grant.
Date: 1852- Books
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Biography of Ephraim McDowell M.D., "the father of ovariotomy" / by his granddaughter M.T. Valentine.
Valentine, M. T. (Mary Thompson)Date: 1897- Books
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A memoir on the life and character of Philip Syng Physick, M.D. / by J. Randolph.
Date: 1839