Stories
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The healing power of breathing
The healing powers of different breathing methods are said to help with a range of health challenges, from asthma to PTSD. Effie Webb traces their spiritual origins and explores the modern proliferation of breathwork therapies.
- Book extract
Naked, not nude
Classicist Caroline Vout argues that it’s time to take the dust covers off the Ancient Greeks and Romans, and to encounter their bodies not nude, but naked.
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The seizure dog
Aparna Nair's dog Charlie made her feel safe in the world. His uncanny ability to sense when she was about to experience a seizure also gave her an unexpected ally in her struggles with epilepsy.
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Electrical epilepsy and the EEG Test
The EEG (electroencephalograph) literally electrified the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy. But for Aparna Nair the dreaded EEG tests of her adolescence were a painful ordeal.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Veterans Administration
Date: 1975-1976Reference: SA/DRS/C/1/191Part of: DrugScope- Journals
Veterans health system journal : VHSJ.
- Books
Veterans and agent orange : update 2000 / Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine.
Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides.Date: 2001- Books
Veterans with a vision : Canada's war blinded in peace and war / Serge Marc Durflinger.
Durflinger, Serge Marc, 1961-Date: [2010], ©2010- Archives and manuscripts
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Veterans' Administration Central Office, "Observations on the treatment of the mentally ill in Europe", Washington
Date: 1960Reference: PP/RKF/B.2/2Part of: Freudenberg, Rudolph Karl (1908-1993) and Freudenberg, Gerda (née Vorster) (1906-1995)