Stories
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Hysteria
Mental health and emotional symptoms are common during menopause, but a long history of dismissing sufferers as 'hysterical women', at the mercy of their emotions has made it much harder to discuss these issues and to get support.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
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Heating up and drying out
Menopause doesn’t have to signify old age, but when your body feels like it’s letting you down, it’s hard not to believe that your useful life may be over.
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Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
Catalogue
- Journals
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The Middle East journal
Date: 1947-- Journals
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International journal of Middle East studies
Date: 1970-- Journals
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.Date: 1834-- Books
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Prehistoric textiles : the development of cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages with special reference to the Aegean / E. J. W. Barber.
Barber, E. J. W., 1940-Date: 1991- Journals
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East Anglian, or, Notes and queries on subjects connected with the counties of Suffolk, Cambridge, Essex and Norfolk.
Date: 1858-