Stories
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Bloody capitalism and the cash flow of the menstrual cycle
Once they thrived on taboos and shame. Now period-product manufacturers are finding new ways to flourish in this era of period activism – but products aren’t the end of the story.
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Homes for the hives of industry
By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.
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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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The ‘undesirable epileptic’
Abused in her marriage for being 'a sick woman', Aparna Nair looked to history to make sense of the response to her epilepsy. She discovered how centuries of fear and discrimination were often endorsed by science and legislation.
Catalogue
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Mind, society, and behavior.
Date: [2015]- Archives and manuscripts
Transnational Social Psychology (Committee on), File 1
Date: 1972-1973Reference: PSY/TAJ/5/55Part of: Tajfel, Henri (1919-1982) papers- Books
Top 10 biotechnologies for improving health in developing countries / [Abdallah S. Darr and others].
Date: [2002?]- Books
The politics of vaccination : a global history / edited by Christine Holmberg, Stuart Blume and Paul Greenough.
Date: 2017- Books
Seeds of science : why we got it so wrong on GMOs / Mark Lynas.
Lynas, Mark, 1973-Date: 2018