Stories
- Article
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
- Archives and manuscripts
Lead poisoning
Date: 1843Reference: MS.7374/142Part of: Pariset, Étienne (1770-1847)- Archives and manuscripts
Lead (39 slides)
Date: 20th CenturyReference: PP/HUN/F/8/10Part of: Hunter, Donald (1898-1977)- Archives and manuscripts
Lead poisoning
Date: 1894-1949Reference: PP/HUN/C/1/48Part of: Hunter, Donald (1898-1977)- Archives and manuscripts
Lead poisoning
Date: 1927Reference: PP/JRH/A/192Part of: Hutchinson, James Randal (c. 1880-1955) and Bradley, William Henry (1898-1975)- Books
- Online
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