Stories
- 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
How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory
A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.
- Article
A symbol of a lost homeland
The story of one protective amulet from Palestine reveals a complex tale. Encompassing the personal history of an influential doctor and collector, it provides a window onto dispossession and exile, and the painful repercussions that are still felt today.
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The rise and fall of a medical mesmerist
Uncover the fascinating story of the doctor who popularised hypnotism as a medical technique, and could name Dickens among his famous friends.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Report to the Inter-Allied Conference: "German concentration camps - early measures at Belsen" (2 copies)
Date: 4 June 1945Reference: RAMC/1218/2/15Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Books
Stem cells and cellular regulatory mechanisms : joint meeting of German Academy of Science Leopoldina - National Academy of Sciences and UKS - Saarland University Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine, Hamburg, June 2 to 3, 2016 / editors: Berthold Seitz, Veit Flockerzi, Dieter Kohn, Markus Hoth, Jens Rettig, and Michael Böhm.
Stem Cells and Cellular Regulatory Mechanisms (Meeting) (2016 : Homburg, Saarland, Germany)Date: 2017- Archives and manuscripts
Plater, Felix (1536-1614), professor of medicine, Basel
Date: late 16th century - early 17th centuryReference: MS.7553/2Part of: Miscellaneous: German, 16th-17th centuries- Archives and manuscripts
Thompson - Todrick
Date: 1949-1982Reference: PP/MLV/C/20/5Part of: Vogt, Dr Marthe Louise (1903-2003)- Archives and manuscripts
'Penicillamine - Internationale Symposium'
Date: 1973Reference: PP/EBC/J.146-J.148Part of: Chain, Professor Sir Ernst Boris