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
Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
- Article
How light pollution affects our circadian rhythms
Too much of the wrong sort of light can send our natural cycles off-kilter – is city life messing with your circadian rhythm?
- Article
The significance of safe spaces as refuges from racism
Beer writer David Jesudason discusses the impact racism has had on his mental health, and the consolation offered by pubs that feel truly safe.
Catalogue
- Books
Biotechnology for the 21st century : a report / by the FCCSET Committee on Life Sciences and Health.
FCCSET Committee on Life Sciences and Health.Date: [1992]- Books
Biotechnology for the 21st century : realizing the promise : a report / by the Committee on Life Sciences and Health.
FCCSET Committee on Life Sciences and Health.Date: [1993]- Books
Guidelines for human embryonic stem cell research / Committee on Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Board on Life Sciences, Division On Earth and Lite Sciences, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine.
Date: [2005], ©2005- Books
Animal biotechnology : science-based concerns / Committee on Defining Science-based Concerns Associated with Products of Animal Biotechnology, Committee on Agricultural Biotechnology, Health, and the Environment, Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, Board on Life Sciences, Division on Earth and Life Studies.
Date: [2002], ©2002- Books
Maximizing human potential : decade of the brain 1990-2000 / Subcommittee on Brain and Behavioral Sciences, Committee on Life Sciences and Health, Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology, Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Date: [1991]