Stories
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Can isolation lead to manipulation?
Military-funded researchers wanted to know if isolation techniques could facilitate brainwashing. One neuroscientist suggested that it might improve our own control over our minds.
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Birth, babies and boxes of memories
With memories of her baby in neonatal intensive care still fresh, Erin Beeston decides to unearth the poignant objects her family kept following births, going back as far as Victorian times.
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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.
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Do good mothers make good democracy?
To be psychologically fit for democracy, one distinguished paediatrician argued that you need a ‘good enough mother’ – and that we must acknowledge the bad side of our feelings.
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Letters from Dally to Lady Rhys Williams re the Perinatal Survey
Date: 1963-1964Reference: PP/DAL/B/2/2/2Part of: Dally, Ann Gwendolen, and Dally, Peter John- Pictures
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John Williams, a member of the Tonkawa tribe. Platinum print by F.A. Rinehart, 1898.
Rinehart, F. A. (Frank A.)Date: [1898], ©1898Reference: 557548i- Books
John Sherwen, M.D. / [William Munk].
Munk, William, 1816-1898.Date: 1878- Books
John Eyre, M.D. / [William Munk].
Munk, William, 1816-1898.Date: 1878- Books
John Robinson, M.D. / [William Munk].
Munk, William, 1816-1898.Date: 1878