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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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The tradesman who confronted the pestilence

The City of London, 1665. As the Great Plague hits the capital, John New faces a deadly dilemma.

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Are doctors medical detectives?

Do doctors really identify medical conditions in the same way that detectives solve crimes? Neurologist Jules Montague makes her diagnosis.

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Can our sexual desires be transformed?

In the 1950s, many psychiatrists thought that homosexuality could be reformed. One found that it couldn’t – and his discoveries led to a change in the law.

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  • Saint Matthew, Saint Mark, Saint Luke and Saint John. Engraving by S.A. Bolswert after Sir P.P. Rubens.
  • Saint Matthew, Saint Mark, Saint Luke and Saint John. Engraving by S.A. Bolswert after Sir P.P. Rubens.
  • Saint Mark, Saint Luke, Saint Matthew and Saint John the Evangelist. Lithograph by G. Markendorf after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.
  • Saint Mark, Saint Luke, Saint Matthew and Saint John the Evangelist. Etching by H. Guttenberg after J.C. Naigeon after J. Jordaens.
  • Saint Mark, Saint Luke, Saint John the Evangelist and Saint Matthew; above, Christ in majesty Coloured engraving by C. Jacquemin after Langlois.
  • The Virgin Mary with the Christ child in glory above, with Saint John the Baptist, Saint Mark and Saint Francis below. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after F. Albani.
  • John Boby, a black man with white markings. Reproduction of an etching, 1803.
  • A finger marked with a "lost property" sign, as a warning of the danger of looms to textile workers. Gouache painting attributed to John Bonella Third, 1949.
  • Lord John Russell, as an auctioneer with Sir Robert Peel as his clerk, auction a bundle of papers inscribed "law of libel", "trial by jury" and "bill of rights"; Daniel O'Connell, a prospective bidder, examines a paper marked "Magna Charta". Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1840.
  • Lord Melbourne sleeps on a chair set on a chest marked "treasury", the Duke of Wellington holds a pole inscribed "magnanimity", while Lord Brougham uses his pole inscribed "faction" as a lever. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1838.
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