Stories
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The castration effect
Discover how testosterone – or the lack of it – affects the male body, from eunuch slaves to castrato singers, and on to hormone reduction in modern prostate cancer treatment.
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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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Father of the house
Stuart Evers thought he’d shaken off his family’s rigid definition of masculinity. But when he became a dad, those buried patriarchal ideas made an unexpected return.
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Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
Catalogue
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Two men are carrying a palanquin between them along a road, others walk behind with yokes across their shoulders. Wood engraving.
Reference: 37107i- Books
Dao t'sang Dan fang jian yuan / Beng Yoke He.
Ho, Peng Yoke, 1926-Date: 1980- Books
Reminiscence of a roving scholar : science, humanities, and Joseph Needham / Ho Peng Yoke.
Ho, Peng Yoke, 1926-Date: [2005], ©2005- Books
Li, qi, and shu : an introduction to science and civilization in China / Ho Peng Yoke.
Ho, Peng Yoke, 1926-Date: [1985], ©1985- Pictures
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Singapore: two Singaporean men carrying a yoke and smoking pipes. Watercolour by J. Taylor, 1879.
Taylor, J. E. (John Edmund), active 1860-1885.Date: 1879Reference: 31757iPart of: Sketches in the Malay archipelago. Album of watercolours and photographs made and collected by J.E. Taylor.