Stories
- 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.
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
- Article
How shame makes us sick
The fight-or-flight response can have long-term consequences for our bodies if left unchecked. Lucia Osborne-Crowley investigates how shame and trauma are connected, and how both can lead to chronic ill health.
- Article
What is violence?
Criminologist Laura Bui explores her early understanding of violence and outlines its definition and wider consequences.
Catalogue
- Books
Arms or health? : the effects of the arms race on health in the absence of nuclear war : proceedings of a conference, October 25th 1986, Coventry (Lanchester) Polytechnic / edited by Chris Taggart and John Middleton.
Date: 1986- Books
World at the crossroads : disarmament and development / Douglas Holdstock.
Holdstock, Douglas, 1933-2008Date: 1986- Books
Racism and mental health : prejudice and suffering / edited by Kamaldeep Bhui.
Date: 2002- Pictures
Health in the Soviet Union: a girl raising her arms in the sunshine, surrounded by equipment used in different sports. Colour lithograph by V. Votrin, 1977.
Votrin, Viktor Konstantinovich, 1941-2007.Date: 1977Reference: 668712i- Books
Multi-racial initiatives in maternity care : a directory of projects for black and ethnic minority women / [researched and written by Asma Ahmed and Maggie Pearson (Centre for Ethnic Minorities Health Studies) and edited by Ruth Evans (Maternity Alliance).].
Ahmed, AsmaDate: 1985