Stories
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The law of periodicity for menstruation
Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.
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Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
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Six personal health zines that might change your life
Personal zines put health conditions back in the hands of the people who experience them. Here are six that Wellcome Collection staff love.
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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.
Catalogue
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Hear me! : consulting with young people on mental health services / Sophie Laws.
Laws, Sophie.Date: 1998- Books
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Human science or phrenology : Its principles, proofs, faculties, organs, temperaments, combinations, conditions, teachings, philosophies, etc., etc. as applied to health. Its value, laws, functions, organs, means, preservation, restoration, etc. Mental philosophy, human and self improvement, civilization, home country, commerce rights, duties, ethics, etc. God, His existence, attributes, laws, worship, natural theology, etc. Immortality, its evidences, conditions, relations to time, rewards, punishments, sin, faith, prayer, etc. Intellect, memory, juvenile and self education, literature, mental discipline, the senses, sciences, arts, avocations, a perfect life, etc., etc. / By Prof. O.S. Fowler ... What is life? to be young when old, be old while young.
Fowler, O. S. (Orson Squire), 1809-1887.Date: [©1880?]- Archives and manuscripts
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Bye-laws
Date: Jul 1914Reference: SA/MAC/A.2/2Part of: Mental After Care Association- Archives and manuscripts
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Application for a Royal Charter "Correspondence; drafts of petition, charter and bye-laws
Date: Jan 1946-Oct 1947Reference: SA/MAC/A.2/3Part of: Mental After Care Association- Archives and manuscripts
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Memorandum prepared for the Royal Commission on Laws Relating to Mental Illness and Mental Deficiency, NAMH
Date: 1955Reference: PP/ADD/J/18/3Part of: Robina Addis (1900-1986): archives