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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A brief history of ventilation
As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.
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Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high
The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.
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Booze and bad behaviour
Our love of alcohol is like a party that’s lasted nine centuries. But there are signs that the demon drink is losing its appeal.
Catalogue
- Books
Learning to smoke : tobacco use in the West / Jason Hughes.
Hughes, Jason.Date: [2003], ©2003- Books
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Revelations about tobacco : a prize essay on the history of tobacco, and its physical action on the human body, through its various modes of employment / by Hampton Brewer.
Brewer, Hampton.Date: 1870- Books
Deadly enemies : tobacco and its opponents in Australia / Ian Tyrrell.
Tyrrell, Ian R.Date: 1999- Videos
Pack of lies.
Date: 1993- Books
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The tobacco habit, its history and pathology : a study in birth-rates. Smokers compared with non-smokers / by Herbert H. Tidswell.
Tidswell, Herbert H. (Herbert Henry)Date: 1912