Stories
- Article
Yoga gets physical
Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.
- Article
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.
- Book extract
Winter blues and the story of SAD
In ‘Chasing the Sun‘ Linda Geddes reveals why for some people, winter is literally depressing, showing how we first came to recognise seasonal affective disorder (SAD).
- Long read
The ambivalence of air
Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Annual Reviews - A(?), Lotte
Date: 1944-1983Reference: PP/MLV/C/1/5Part of: Vogt, Dr Marthe Louise (1903-2003)- Books
- Online
On the influence of mental activity on the excretion of phosphoric acid by the kidneys : (Silliman prize thesis) / by Luther Hodges Wood.
Wood, Luther Hodges, 1847-1899.Date: 1869- Books
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Observations on the phenomena of life and mind / by Robert Dunn.
Dunn, Robert, 1799-1877.Date: 1868- Books
The neuroscience of intelligence / Richard J. Haier.
Haier, Richard J.Date: 2017- Archives and manuscripts
Dent, Charles Enrique (1911-1976)
Dent, Charles Enrique (1911-1976)Date: c.1940-1977Reference: PP/CED