Stories
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When monarchs healed the sick
Our current Queen fortunately doesn’t have to spend hours laying hands on the sick to cure them. But it was a different story for monarchs of the early modern era, whose touch was a sought-after treatment for scrofula.
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Busting myths about turkey-baster babies
The popular idea of sex-free, turkey-baster-led conception has been around since the 1970s. Christine Ro goes beyond the utensils drawer to find out if it’s ever really happened.
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The 200-year search for normal people
Sarah Chaney poses the question we’ve likely all asked at some point in our lives: 'Am I normal?’, and explores whether normality even exists.
Catalogue
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'Medical Sociology'
Date: 1938Reference: PP/GMG/B/41Part of: M'Gonigle, George Cuthbert Mura- Archives and manuscripts
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'BMA Aberdeen (Medical Sociology)'
Date: 1938-1939Reference: PP/GMG/B/15Part of: M'Gonigle, George Cuthbert Mura- Books
Sociology as applied to medicine / the Sociology Teachers Group from London Medical Schools ; edited by Donald L. Patrick and Graham Scambler ; with a foreword by Margot Jefferys.
Date: 1982- Books
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Sociological Reflections on the Neurosciences : Advances in Medical Sociology Vol 13
Martyn PickersgillDate: 2011- Archives and manuscripts
John McEwan: Miscellaneous activities: Fertility Studies Group: Aberdeen Medical Sociology Research Group
Date: 1973-1976Reference: PP/MEW/F/3/1Part of: McEwan, John