Stories
- Book extract
The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
- Article
Female masturbation and the perils of pleasure
Dr Kate Lister exposes the brutal 19th-century ‘cures’ for women who indulged in masturbation.
- Article
Providing care across languages
When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.
- Article
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
- Archives and manuscripts
Royal College of Pathologists Council
Date: 1964 - 1990Reference: PP/ASH/C/12Part of: Ashton, Professor Norman- Archives and manuscripts
Ashton, Professor Norman
Ashton, N.Date: 1924 - 1998Reference: PP/ASH- Books
- Online
Reflections on John Hunter as a physician : and on his relation to the medical societies of the last century. Part I, John Hunter as a physician / by G. Newton Pitt, M.D. Cantab., F.R.C.P. Lond., assitant physician, senior lecturer on pathology, and demonstrator of morbid anatomy at Guy's Hopsital.
Pitt, G. Newton (George Newton), 1853-1929Date: 1896- Books
- Online
On the pathology and treatment of gonorrhoea / by J.L. Milton.
Milton, J. L. (John Laws), 1820-1898.Date: 1871- Journals
- Online
Pathology, research and practice
Date: 1978-