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“I’ve never talked to anybody about this before”

Douglas is furious. He’s at crisis point and needs help. Read the first of his two sessions with psychoanalyst Susie Orbach.

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Making sunstroke insanity

Medical historian Dr Kristin Hussey takes a closer look at sunstroke and mental illness, and how, in the late 19th century, they connected at the crossroads of colonial science and the idea of whiteness.

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Sharing breastmilk with parents

Alev Scott donated her frozen breastmilk to a hospital milk bank, but she was curious about other routes. Here she explores commercial operations and informal private arrangements.

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Can our minds be taken hostage?

It’s not unusual for captives to end up feeling strong bonds with their captors. But is it a matter of submission or survival?

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  • Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil : trial by jury / [Foster, Milburn & Co.].
  • Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil : trial by jury / [Foster, Milburn & Co.].
  • A manacled man standing before a jury in a courtroom making gestures of protest while being confined in a spiked frame. Etching by J. van der Gucht.
  • Fry's pure concentrated cocoa : I fully endorse the verdict of the jury that Fry's pure concentrated cocoa is the "strongest and best" which can possibly be produced.
  • Fry's pure concentrated cocoa : I fully endorse the verdict of the jury that Fry's pure concentrated cocoa is the "strongest and best" which can possibly be produced.
  • A man is led in chains before a jury while various forms of torture are enacted in the background, such as burning, hammering to death, breaking on the wheel and hanging. Woodcut.
  • A doctor visiting a patient and advising him against drinking alcohol, the patient responds by inviting him to dinner and some port, in order to avoid jury service. Wood engraving by C. Keane, 1865.
  • Lord John Russell, as an auctioneer with Sir Robert Peel as his clerk, auction a bundle of papers inscribed "law of libel", "trial by jury" and "bill of rights"; Daniel O'Connell, a prospective bidder, examines a paper marked "Magna Charta". Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1840.
  • Observationes medico-practicae de affectibvs capitis internis et externis : Nunc demum publici juris redditæ. Studio et opera nepotum, Bernhardini Wepferi ... et Georgii Mich. Wepferi / [Johann Jakob Wepfer].
  • Catalogue of the Society of Apothecaries, London : who have been examined, and are by act of Parliament exempted from all Parish, Ward and Leet offices, and from serving on juries : incorporated 1617 ... / Frederick Kanmacher.
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