London’s Science Museum is now exhibiting Mind Maps: Stories from Psychology. Supported by the British Psychological Society (BPS), the exhibit is on display until August 12, 2014 and is free for all visitors. The video above provides a quick look behind the scenes of the exhibit and a number of items from the exhibit are … Continue reading New Exhibit! Mind Maps: Stories from Psychology at London’s Science Museum
There are a number of articles in the just released May issue of Social History of Medicine that may be of interest to AHP’s readers. In a piece on music and hypnosis, James Kennaway explores the long and complicated relationship between music and selfhood from the time of Mesmeric uses of the glass harmonica (left) … Continue reading New in Social History of Medicine
A nifty new blog called Brain in a Vat recently posted an item about Benjamin Franklin’s interest in Electrotherapy. Why? The author, Noam Rudnick, visited the Mütter Museum and was shocked by what he discovered. On one pedestal, I discovered a Van de Graaff generator that belonged to Franklin. The idea of curing diseases with electricity … Continue reading Blog: “Ben Franklin, Electrotherapist”