Stories
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Making sunstroke insanity
Medical historian Dr Kristin Hussey takes a closer look at sunstroke and mental illness, and how, in the late 19th century, they connected at the crossroads of colonial science and the idea of whiteness.
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London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
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Society, not Covid-19, makes us vulnerable
Rick Burgess coped with the death of his mother in February 2020 by immersing himself in the task of protecting his community from Covid-19 and challenging the government's failure to protect and support elderly and Disabled people during the pandemic.
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Female masturbation and the perils of pleasure
Dr Kate Lister exposes the brutal 19th-century ‘cures’ for women who indulged in masturbation.
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A selection of papers and prize essays on subjects connected with insanity, read before the Society for Improving the Condition of the Insane.
Date: 1850- Books
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A selection of papers and prize essays on subjects connected with insanity : read before the Society for Improving the Condition of the Insane.
Society for Improving the Condition of the Insane.Date: 1850- Books
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A selection of papers and prize essays on subjects connected with insanity / read before the Society for Improving the Condition of the Insane.
Date: 1850- Books
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On the distinction between crime and insanity : an essay, to which the Society for Improving the Condition of the Insane awarded the premium of twenty guineas / by Thomas Coutts Morison.
Morison, Thomas Coutts.Date: 1844- Books
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Rules and list of the present members of the Society for Improving the Condition of the Insane : and the prize essay entitled The progressive changes which have taken place since the time of Pinel in the moral management of the insane and the various contrivances which have been adopted instead of mechanical restraint / by Daniel H. Tuke. Together with a short abstract or classification of cases ; contributed by Sir Alexander Morison.
Society for Improving the Condition of the Insane.Date: 1854