Stories
- Article
Vivekananda’s journey
How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.
- Book extract
The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
- Article
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.
- Article
Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
Catalogue
- Books
- Online
Constructions of cancer in early modern England : ravenous natures / Alanna Skuse.
Skuse, Alanna, 1986-Date: 2015- Books
Disability in German-speaking Europe : history, memory, culture / edited by Linda Leskau, Tanja Nusser, and Katherine Sorrels.
Date: 2022- Books
Political animals : representing dogs in modern Russian culture / by Henrietta Mondry.
Mondry, HenriettaDate: [2015]- Books
A history of Indian literature / edited by Jan Gonda.
Date: 1975-- Books
John Galsworthy and disabled soldiers of the Great War : with an illustrated selection of his writings / Jeffrey S. Reznick.
Reznick, Jeffrey S. (Jeffrey Stephen)Date: 2009
