Stories
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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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Dealing with the dead after a nuclear attack
Cold War-era predictions of death on a vast scale became routine. But the British authorities were less prepared to dispose of the bodies.
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Writing in remission
Reading the writings of the lifelong hypochondriac Jacques Derrida during lockdown, Brian Dillon realises his own health anxiety has become unusually subdued.
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The doctor who challenged the unicorn myth
Our era of fake news and medical misinformation is nothing new. Estelle Paranque relays the thrusts and parries of a 440-year-old row over a magical cure-all, the unicorn horn.
Catalogue
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Lead poison / Rick Rogers.
Rogers, Rick.Date: [1982?]- Books
Lead poisoning / [Dr. Herbert].
Herbert, Dr., active 1890.Date: 1890
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Lead and health : the report of a DHSS Working Party on Lead in the Environment.
Great Britain. Department of Health and Social Security.Date: 1980- Books
Lead in drinking water / Steve Potter.
Potter, Steve.Date: 1997
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Lead poisoning in the smelting and refining of lead.
Hamilton, Alice, 1869-1970.Date: 1914
