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Thirst is a universal human experience shared with most living beings. With only 3% of the water on Earth being freshwater, our land thirsts too. 'Thirst: In Search of Freshwater' explores humanity’s ...

This work by Rensis Likert introduces a method for measuring attitudes, offering insights into psychological and sociological research.

The architecture of purpose-built sanatoriums enabled doctors and nurses to monitor patients more closely – the transparent, open-air designs normalised a disciplinarian regime of surveillance, which ...

Industrial accident prevention : a scientific approach / by H.W. Heinrich.Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Polytechnic of East London Note: Formerly in the Charles Myers Library at the National Institute of ...

Jason can pinpoint the exact time of his diagnosis to 2.54pm, as it coincided with Sebastian Coe winning the 1500-metre race in the 1980 Moscow Olympics, which was being shown on the ward’s ...

Explore the profound impact of physical work on health and the body at our new major exhibition. ‘Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights’ delves into the stories of underrepresented workers and their ...

'The Cult of Beauty' explores notions of beauty across time and cultures. Around the world, beauty is constantly seen as an ideal worthy of going to great lengths to achieve. But what driving forces ...

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Not everyone was happy with the growing use of tobacco in Britain. In 1604, King James VI wrote ‘A Counterblaste to Tobacco’, arguing that smoking was dangerous to lung health and offensive to the ...

F or too many years there has been a persistent untruth that autism is rare in girls and women. The use of classic autistic male characteristics for diagnostic parameters has meant that generations of ...

<p>Letters sent from Charles Darwin to his cousin Francis Galton. Dates from the time of the publication of Galton's Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa in 1853 up until Darwin's death ...