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Going viral in the online anti-vaccine wars
‘Anti-vaxxers’ are taking their message online using powerful images as well as words. But is the pro campaigners’ response any better?
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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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Native Americans through the 19th-century lens
The stories behind Rinehart's photographs may not be as black and white as they first appear.
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Eugenics and the welfare state
Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.
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The home to the camp : addressed to the soldiers of the Union / by J.F.W. Ware.
Ware, John F. W. (John Fothergill Waterhouse), 1818-1881.Date: 1861- Books
John Shaw Billings, creator of the National medical library and its catalogue, first director of the New York public library / by Harry Miller Lydenberg.
Lydenberg, Harry Miller, 1874-1960.Date: 1924
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The work of humanity in war : plan and results of the Geneva Congress and International Treaty, securing to the sick and wounded in war the benefits of neutrality and sanitary care / prepared under direction of the American branch of the International Association for Relief of Misery of Battlefields.
American Association for the Relief of the Misery of Battle Fields.Date: 1870
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An Alphabetical list of the battles of the War of the Rebellion : with dates, from Ft. Sumter, S.C., April 12 and 13, 1861, to Kirby Smith's surrender, May 26, 1865 / compiled from the official records of the Office of the Adjutant-General and the Surgeon-General, U.S.A. by J.W. Wells and N.A. Strait ; rev. by Newton A. Strait, with the addition of many incidents of the war, a chronological history of the war of the rebellion, and a list of the presidents and vice-presidents of the United States from Washington to Arthur, and a roster of all the regimental surgeons and assistant surgeons in the late war and hospital service.
Date: 1883
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History of the New Hampshire surgeons in the war of rebellion / by Granville P. Conn. Published by order of the New Hampshire Association of Military Surgeons.
Conn, Granville P. (Granville Priest), 1832-1916.Date: 1906