Stories
- Article
Robinson Crusoe and the morality of solitude
Robinson Crusoe, fiction’s most famous castaway, was certainly isolated, but did he suffer the intrinsically modern affliction of loneliness?
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Nymphomania and hypersexuality in women and men
The history of nymphomania is closely bound with society's views on women and their sexuality.
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Uncovering experiences of dementia
Focusing on three 19th-century women’s case notes, Millie van der Byl Williams explores how our definition of dementia has changed.
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Between sickness and health
In early 2020, the subject Will Rees was studying – imaginary illnesses – took on a new relevance as everyone anxiously scanned themselves for Covid symptoms each day. But this kind of self-scrutiny is nothing new, as he reveals.
Catalogue
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Media - 'Miscellaneous'
Date: 1979-1986Reference: SA/PAT/C/36/5Part of: The Patients Association- Books
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A discourse, delivered November 3, 1790, at the particular request of a number of respectable men in Franklin, who were forming a society, for the reformation of morals. And now published at the desire of the hearers. By Nathanael Emmons, A.M. Pastor of the church in Franklin.
Emmons, Nathanael, 1745-1840.Date: [1790]- Books
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A discourse, delivered, September 3d, MDCCXCII, to the Society for the Reformation of Morals, in Franklin. Published at their request. By Nathanael Emmons, A.M. Pastor of the church in Franklin.
Emmons, Nathanael, 1745-1840.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
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The moral treatment of the insane : a lecture / by W.A.F. Browne.
Date: 1864- Books
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An account of the progress of the reformation of manners, in England and Ireland, and other parts of the world. With some Reasons and plain Directions for our hearty and vigorous Prosecution of this Glorious Work. In a letter to a friend. To which is added, the special obligations of magistrates to be diligent in the Execution of the Penal-Laws against Prophaneness and Debauchery, for the Effecting a National Reformation.
Woodward, Josiah, 1660-1712.Date: 1701