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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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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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Inside the Cold War mind

Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.

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When wounds replace words

For the many thousands of refugees waiting in Greece, the process to establish the truth of their tragic personal histories is often extremely upsetting. But a group of medics and legal workers is working together to make the system more humane.

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  • Dissection of the arm, showing the muscles and nerves. Colour lithograph by G.H. Ford, 1863.
  • Dissection of the fore-arm, showing the muscles and nerves. Colour lithograph by G.H. Ford, 1863.
  • Nerves: four figures, showing front and back views of an écorché, and details of nerves in the arm liable to injury in bleeding. Line engraving by Campbell, 1816/1821.
  • Dissection showing the muscles, blood vessels and nerves of the upper arm. Colour lithograph by G.H. Ford, 1863.
  • Nerves of the shoulder and arm. Coloured lithograph by William Fairland, 1839, after W. Bagg after W.J.E. Wilson.
  • Arm and shoulder: two figures of a dissection, with blood vessels and nerves indicated in red and blue. Coloured line engraving by W.H. Lizars, 1822/1826.
  • Arm and shoulder: two figures of a dissection, with blood vessels and nerves indicated in red and blue. Coloured line engraving by W.H. Lizars, 1822/1826.
  • A dissected arm. Watercolour, 1829.
  • The muscles of the arm and palm of the hand and geometrical diagrams of the tendons and fibres of different muscles. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.
  • The left forearm of Sir George Turner (?), showing symptoms of leprosy. Colour photograph, 19--.
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