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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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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Homes for the hives of industry
By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.
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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
The dwellings of the labouring classes : their arrangement and construction with the essentials of a healthy dwelling, illustrated by references to the model houses of the Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes ... and other recent buildings; with plans and elevations of dwellings adapted to towns and to rural districts / by Henry Roberts.
Roberts, Henry, 1803-1876.Date: [1867]