Stories
- Article
Tripping for spiritualism and science
Getting high in the name of religion or creativity has been practised for centuries. Now it seems hallucinogenics could help treat mental illnesses too.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
- 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
The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.
Catalogue
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London Centre for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology : postgraduate studies.
London Centre for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology.Date: [1988]- Journals
Bulletin of the International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine.
- Books
Migration, health and ethnicity in the modern world / edited by Catherine Cox, director, Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, University College Dublin, Ireland and Hilary Marland, professor of history, University of Warwick, UK.
Date: 2013- Journals
Newsletter / the Sidney M. Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Jerusalem).
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Making space for science : territorial themes in the shaping of knowledge / edited by Crosbie Smith and Jon Agar ; with the assistance of Gerald Schmidt.
Date: 1998