Stories
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
- Article
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.
- Article
Getting the measure of pain
In the 20th century doctors tried to find a way to measure pain. But even when ‘objective’ measures were rejected, an accurate understanding of another’s pain remained frustratingly elusive.
- Article
How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory
A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.
Catalogue
- Books
Studies on the physiology and pathology of the blood : investigations, the expense of which has been met in part by the Proctor Fund for the Study of Chronic Disease / from the Harvard Medical School and allied hospitals.
Date: 1919-1922- Books
Studies on metabolism : investigations, the expense of which has been met in part by the Proctor Fund for the Study of Chronic Diseases from the Harvard Medical School and allied hospitals.
Date: [1922-1925]- Books
Chronic illness in the United States.
Commission on Chronic Illness.Date: 1956-1959 [v. 1, 1957]- Books
- Online
The oculocardiac reflex : an electrocardiographic study with special reference to the differences between right and left vagal and ocular pressures in tabetics and non-tabetics / Samuel A. Levine, M.D. Boston.
Levine, Samuel A. (Samuel Albert), 1891-1966Date: 1915- Books
Overcoming chronic pain : a self-help manual using cognitive behavioral techniques / Frances Cole, Helen MacDonald, Catherine Carus, and Hazel Howden-Leach.
Cole, Frances (Medical doctor)Date: 2010