Stories
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The family food of a kebab van man
Melek Erdal celebrates the physical and mental resilience of her father Yusuf, forged by isolation and dislocation, and reinforced by the distinctive cuisine of his home country, Turkey.
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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.
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The soul in the stomach
A 17th-century physician’s controversial theory about the link between the emotions and the stomach reminds us that we shouldn’t ignore our ‘gut feelings’.
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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
Catalogue
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Physics & philosophy / by Sir James Jeans.
Jeans, James, 1877-1946.Date: 1942- Books
Seeking nature's logic : natural philosophy in the Scottish enlightenment / David B. Wilson.
Wilson, David B., 1961-Date: [2009], ©2009- Archives and manuscripts
Whewell, William (1794-1866)
Whewell, William, (1794-1866)Date: early 19th century - mid 19th centuryReference: MS.8007/8Part of: Miscellany: British, mainly 19th-20th centuries- Archives and manuscripts
Wheatstone, Sir Charles, (1802-1875)
Wheatstone, Charles, (1802-1875)Date: mid 19th century - late 19th centuryReference: MS.8007/7Part of: Miscellany: British, mainly 19th-20th centuries- Books
Tainted : how philosophy of science can expose bad science / Kristin Shrader-Frechette.
Shrader-Frechette, K. S. (Kristin Sharon)Date: [2014]