Stories
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The yogi as hermit, warrior, criminal and showman
How the modern world changed the life and reputation of the yogi.
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Can our minds be taken hostage?
It’s not unusual for captives to end up feeling strong bonds with their captors. But is it a matter of submission or survival?
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Bloody capitalism and the cash flow of the menstrual cycle
Once they thrived on taboos and shame. Now period-product manufacturers are finding new ways to flourish in this era of period activism – but products aren’t the end of the story.
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Can our sexual desires be transformed?
In the 1950s, many psychiatrists thought that homosexuality could be reformed. One found that it couldn’t – and his discoveries led to a change in the law.
Catalogue
- Books
Plainville, U.S.A / James West.
West, James, 1900-1970.Date: 1945- Books
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Disease-bearing mosquitoes of North and Central America : the West Indies, and the Philippine islands / by C.S. Ludlow, Ph. D., anatomist, Army medical museum.
Ludlow, Clara Southmayd, 1852-1924.Date: 1914- Books
Confronting medical mass murder : the U.S. and West German euthanasia trials, 1945-1965 / by Michael S. Bryant.
Bryant, Michael, 1962-Date: [2001], ©2001- Books
Eugenics beyond borders : science and medicalization in Mexico and the U.S. West, 1900-1950 / by Alexandra Minna Stern.
Stern, Alexandra Minna, 1966-Date: [1999], ©1999- Books
Medicine & culture : notions of health and sickness in Britain, the U.S., France and West Germany / Lynn Payer.
Payer, Lynn.Date: 1989