Stories
- Article
Befriending heavy breathers
Read the fascinating story behind the rare manual that helped volunteers on one of Britain’s first free telephone helplines to deal with masturbating callers.
- Article
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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Disturbed minds and disruptive bodies
Prison officers tried to regulate women’s minds and bodies and maintain a new disciplinary routine in the second half of the 1800s.
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Paris Morgue and a public spectacle of death
Known as the “only free theatre in Paris”, La Morgue was a popular place for the public to view cadavers on display.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Assisted Suicide
Date: 2008-2010Reference: PP/IDD/D/1/4Part of: Iddon, Brian- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence relating to "media bias" in the reporting of assisted suicide
Date: 2009Reference: PP/IDD/D/1/4/1Part of: Iddon, Brian- Archives and manuscripts
General correspondence and papers
Date: 2008-2010Reference: PP/IDD/D/1/4/2Part of: Iddon, Brian- Books
Physician-assisted suicide / Robert F. Weir, editor.
Date: [1997], ©1997- Books
Assisted suicide : the liberal, humanist case against legalization / Kevin Yuill.
Yuill, Kevin L., 1962-Date: 2015