Stories
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The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
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Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs
The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.
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The birth of Britain's National Health Service
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
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The case of the cancerous stomach
Steak and schnitzel were on the menu again after Theodor Billroth successfully excised a woman’s stomach cancer in 1881. Remarkably, today’s surgeons still perform the same procedure, with slight modifications.
Catalogue
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Surgeons, sea and shore : European medical explorers and natural history in northern Australia - the first 200 years / Jeanette Covacevich and John Pearn.
Covacevich, JeanetteDate: 1994- Books
Medicine in history : guide to the exhibition, 26th November 1949 - 31st January 1950, to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.
Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum.Date: [1950]- Archives and manuscripts
Parkinson's Disease Information Center - Paton, D M
Date: 1966-1980Reference: PP/MLV/C/16/3Part of: Vogt, Dr Marthe Louise (1903-2003)- Books
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Syllabus of lectures on natural history.
Jameson, Robert, 1774-1854.Date: [between 1830 and 1839?]- Books
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The first history of chemistry / by John Ferguson.
Ferguson, John, 1838-1916.Date: [1886]