Stories
- Article
Losing touch
In these pandemic times, when touch has become taboo, Agnese Reginaldo explores the importance of physical contact to our wellbeing.
- Article
Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
- Book extract
Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations
Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.
- Book extract
Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
'Biological appropriateness: adaptation'
Date: c.1930s-1980sReference: PP/BOW/H.105Part of: Bowlby, (Edward) John (Mostyn) (1907-1990)- Archives and manuscripts
'Genic selection and adaptation'
Date: c.1930s-1980sReference: PP/BOW/H.102Part of: Bowlby, (Edward) John (Mostyn) (1907-1990)- Books
Modern concepts on biological adaptation / Ludwig von Bertalanffy.
Bertalanffy, Ludwig von.Date: 1959- Books
Biological, cultural and social adaptation in human fertility and birth : a synthesis / C.P. MacCormack.
MacCormack, C. P.Date: 1982- Books
Adaptation / edited by John Romano.
Date: 1949