Stories
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When the sun goes down
Despite the country’s colonial and industrial dominion, the finest minds of Victorian Britain began to fear the devastating effects of declining natural resources. Even the death of the sun.
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Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
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Sick of being lonely
When his relationship ended, Thom James first withdrew from the world, then began to suffer from illnesses with no apparent physical cause.
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Coleridge’s hypochondria
An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.
Catalogue
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Visual problems of colour : a symposium held at the National Physical Laboratory on 23rd, 24th, 25th September 1957.
Date: 1958- Books
Physical complaints, service use and treatment of residents with psychiatric disorders / Howard Meltzer [and others].
Date: [1996], ©1996- Books
Report upon the physical examination of men of military age by National Service Medical Boards from November 1st, 1917--October 31st, 1918.
Date: 1920- Books
Reports of the special Committee upon the Standardisation of Pathological Methods. No. 2, The laboratory diagnosis of gonococcal infections. No. 3, Methods for the detection of spirochaetes.
Great Britain. Medical Research Committee. Committee upon the Standardisation of Pathological Methods.Date: 1918- Pictures
Heads of women of different ages and physical character; representing the choices available for epileptic women. Colour lithograph, 1996.
Date: 1996Reference: 2016658i