Stories
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Yoga gets physical
Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.
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The work of wet-nursing
Many of us know that in the past, babies were sometimes nourished by wet-nurses. But, perhaps surprisingly, the practice continues today – and the milk recipients are not only babies.
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Desperate housewives and suburban neurosis
Discover how a pioneering health centre replaced housewives’ supposedly empty home lives with a social space that encouraged healthy child rearing.
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The 200-year search for normal people
Sarah Chaney poses the question we’ve likely all asked at some point in our lives: 'Am I normal?’, and explores whether normality even exists.
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The lumbar curve of the spinal column in several races of men / by Sir William Turner.
Turner, Wm. (William), Sir, 1832-1916.Date: [1885?]- Books
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Chronological tables of scientific men, showing the names of the more distinguished anatomists and physiologists, and their contemporaries / by John G. M'Kendrick.
McKendrick John Gray, 1841-1926.Date: [1890]- Books
Inferior : how science got women wrong - and the new research that's rewriting the story / Angela Saini.
Saini, Angela, 1980-Date: 2017- Archives and manuscripts
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Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 13
Date: March - June 1903Reference: WF/E/03/13Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 20
Date: May - December 1905Reference: WF/E/03/20Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd