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...central role within medicine. In an area when ‘high tech’, scientific medicine seemed to supply an endless stream of new theories and better therapies, the laboratory was assumed to have won its place simply on the grounds of utility. While laboratory research undoubtedly revolutionised understanding of body function and disease, its impact on medical practice is less...

...central to understanding how empires were established, managed, experienced and dismantled...Empires have existed throughout most of human history. They have spanned the globe. They have influenced the way we are governed, our systems of trade, how we use technology, our relationships with the natural world. They have shaped how we have seen, mapped and divided the world....

...central beliefs of the Wiccan worldview – and of 1960s seekers more broadly. Activity 4 Timing: Allow approximately 20 minutes Read the poem, The Charge of the Goddess, by Doreen Valiente. How does it reflect the spiritual concerns of the baby boomers? Jot down a few thoughts as you read. Listen to the words of the Great Mother, who was of old also called Artemis;...

...central to the Enlightenment of the 18th Century, this did not lead to the theory of evolution. Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis proposed the spontaneous generation and extinction of organisms as part of his theory of origins. However, he advanced no theory of evolution. Georges-Louis Leclerc, a prominent naturalist of the time, explicitly considered, and rejected, the...