Stories
- Article
Disability, education and prejudice
In the 1960s and 1970s, thalidomide survivors had to fight for a proper education. If they weren’t brought up in institutions, they were often viewed as objects of curiosity, encountering verbal and sometimes physical abuse, both at school and in the world beyond.
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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.
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Graphic battles in pharmacy
James Morison’s campaign against the medical establishment inspired a wave of caricatures mocking his quack medicine.
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Abandoning daydreams of a life without diabetes
After years of longing for a cure for her type 1 diabetes, Daisy Watson Shaw, partly due to medical advances in managing the condition, has reached a state of acceptance. Her wishes now are for greater understanding.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
CME [Continuing Medical Education]
Date: 1998-2000Reference: SA/BAS/A.8/2/2Part of: British Association for Sexual Health and HIV- Archives and manuscripts
Continuing Education Committee
Date: Jun 1990-Mar 1991Reference: SA/SMO/Q.4/3Part of: Society of Medical Officers of Health- Archives and manuscripts
Continuing Medical Education Committee, with related papers and correspondence
Date: Nov 1995-Oct 1996Reference: SA/SMO/Q.4/7Part of: Society of Medical Officers of Health- Archives and manuscripts
Response to the Chief Medical Officer's Consultation Document on Continuing Medical Education
Date: Jun-Dec 1995Reference: SA/SMO/L.203/4Part of: Society of Medical Officers of Health- Archives and manuscripts
'Government and medical education in the UK' in proceedings of Anglo-American Conference on Continuing Medical Education, (Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine), pp 14-22, 8 Apr 1974
Date: 1974Reference: GC/201/B/37Part of: Godber, Sir George