Stories
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The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
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Yoga gets physical
Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.
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The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.
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A history of mindfulness
Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.
Catalogue
- Books
Culture & health : building the evidence / Northwest Culture Observatory.
Date: [2006]- Books
Culture and health / Malcolm MacLachlan.
MacLachlan, Malcolm.Date: [1997], ©1997- Journals
Culture, medicine and psychiatry.
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Culture of dermatology / [Erasmus Wilson].
Wilson, Erasmus, Sir, 1809-1884Date: 1868- Books
Culture, health, and illness / Cecil Helman.
Helman, Cecil, 1944-2009.Date: 2001