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The stranger who started an epidemic
| Anna Faherty
New Orleans, 1853. James McGuigan arrives in the port city and succumbs to yellow fever.
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How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory
| Hannah CornishGergo Varga
A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.
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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
| Guy StaggJess Nash
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
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Born in the NHS
| Cal Flyn
Despite underfunding, strikes and scandals, the first two decades of the 2000s has seen the British people’s love of and loyalty to the NHS soar.
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The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
| Ken Hollings
In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.