Stories
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A quick guide to drugs, the brain and brain chemistry
Discover some of the major chemicals that govern activity in our brains, how they work, and why certain drugs have the effects they do.
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Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug
Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.
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The enduring myth of the mad genius
There’s a fine line to tread between creativity and psychosis.
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Fees, funding and the NHS
In the 1950s, dramatic political battles over NHS charges brought down a government. But public confidence in the service still grew.
Catalogue
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Major problems in the history of American sexuality : documents and essays / edited by Kathy Peiss.
Date: [2002], ©2002- Books
Major tranquillizers.
Date: [1995], ©1995- Books
Major Patrick Esmonde.
Date: 1997- Books
Major Bill Winter.
Date: [date of publication not identified]- Books
Major problems in the history of American medicine and public health : documents and essays / edited by John Harley Warner, Janet A. Tighe.
Date: [2001], ©2001