Stories
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Can isolation lead to manipulation?
Military-funded researchers wanted to know if isolation techniques could facilitate brainwashing. One neuroscientist suggested that it might improve our own control over our minds.
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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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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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Bleeding healthy
For thousands of years, and in many different cultures, people have practised bloodletting for health and medical reasons. Julia Nurse explains where and when bleeding was used, how it was done, and why.
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Hysteria or pithiatism, and reflex nervous disorders in the neurology of war / by J. Babinski ... and J. Froment ... with a proscript by the authors; translated by J.D. Rolleston ... ed., with a preface, by E. Farquhar Buzzard ; with 37 figures and 8 plates.
Babinski, J. (Joseph), 1857-1932Date: 1918- Books
Manual of dermatology / by Donald M. Pillsbury, Marion B. Sulzberger, Clarence S. Livingood.
Pillsbury, Donald M. (Donald Marion), 1902-1980.Date: 1942- Books
Manual of clinical mycology / prepared under the auspices of the Divison of Medical Sciences of the National Research Council by Norman F. Conant [and others].
Date: 1944- Books
Syphilis and the army / by G. Thibierge ; edited by C.F. Marshall.
Thibierge, Georges, 1856-1926.Date: 1918- Books
Wounds of the vessels / by L. Sencert ; edited with a preface by F.F. Burghard.
Sencert, L. (Louis)Date: 1918