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How slums make people sick
| Emily Sargent
A newly gentrified corner of Bermondsey leaves little clue to its less salubrious history. But a few intrepid writers recorded the details of existence in one of London’s most squalid slums.
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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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Inside the mind of Ayurvedic Man’s curator, Bárbara Rodriguez Muñoz
| Gwendolyn Smith
The choices a curator makes – what goes in? what stays out? why? – are often as fascinating as the exhibition itself.