Stories
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The anatomy of a brain dissection
Dissecting the brain after death not only helps confirm a diagnosis, but it can also teach us so much more about the symptoms and causes of brain diseases and how to treat them.
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The healing power of breathing
The healing powers of different breathing methods are said to help with a range of health challenges, from asthma to PTSD. Effie Webb traces their spiritual origins and explores the modern proliferation of breathwork therapies.
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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK
Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.
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What is hysteria?
Hysteria has long been associated with fanciful myths, but its history reveals how it has been used to control women’s behaviour and bodies
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Kq: Nervous System Diseases - Neurological Conditions - Groups
Date: 1998-1999Reference: SA/WHL/14/32/1Part of: Women's Health Library: archive- Archives and manuscripts
"The Life of Aelius Aristides a Greek 'neurotic' - for comparison with the infirmities of Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Ellis Barker etc"
Date: 1946Reference: PP/FPW/B.226/4/2Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)- Videos
Diseases.
Date: Date unknown- Books
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Essays chiefly on the theory of paroxysmal diseases of the nervous system / by Marshall Hall.
Hall, Marshall, 1790-1857.Date: [1849]- Archives and manuscripts
Paass - Parkes
Date: 1946-1981Reference: PP/MLV/C/16/1Part of: Vogt, Dr Marthe Louise (1903-2003)