Today, psychology has become a common field of study. Academic professionals and curious amateurs now regularly ponder the inner-workings of the mind, searching for answers and explanations. But this was not always the case. In fact, in the grand scheme of things, psychology is a relatively new field, emerging into the mainstream in just the …
The trajectory of the spread of COVID-19 has rapidly accelerated since the first case was reported in Wuhan. Here is a complete timeline of the major updates: November 2019 November 17th – The First Case Confirmed Cases: 1Total Deaths: 0Hotspots: NoneKey Developments: The potential first case of coronavirus emerges in the Hubei province. The Potential …
Asbestos is a highly versatile, strong, cheap, non-flammable malleable substance that has been used in building, textiles and construction for the last 2000 years. Asbestos is also a highly toxic airborne fibrous substance that causes a number of different incurable cancers in humans that are exposed to it. Asbestos is in many homes around …
In what could be considered a very bad idea, Robert Louis Stevenson trekked through Cevennes, France, among mountains and lower highlands, despite his youthful bad health, aboard a donkey named Modestine. It was the autumn of 1878 and he was many years, half a decade in fact, from the fame of his greatest literary success: …
A Caesarian, or C section, is the medical term for the intervention of childbirth where the baby is cut and removed from the womb of the mother by doctors. It is believed that there is only one known case of a woman giving herself a caesarian section without a doctor, where both the mother and child …
Asylums. Electro-Shock Therapy. Skull Drills. Pills. Exorcisms. Isolation. Lobotomies. Many of the drastic procedures that have been put in place to relieve a person with mental illness such as schizophrenia are only successful in creating ‘vegetables’ out of patients, not curing their illness but making them ghosts of their previous selves. Throughout history, there have …