Stories
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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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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
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Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
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Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
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Clinical Genetics in Britain Related Documents
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 1958-1997Reference: GC/253/A/39/9Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Books
Prelude to practice : a study of fieldwork teaching and the needs of the health visitor student / Anne Dean.
Dean, Anne.Date: 1985- Books
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Some thoughts concerning the study of the laws of England in the two universities. In a letter to the Reverend - Head of - College in Oxford.
Wood, Thomas, 1661-1722.Date: MDCCVIII. [1708]- Books
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Some thoughts concerning the study of the laws of England. Particularly in the two universities. In a letter to the Reverend Head of - College in Oxford. Written by Thomas Wood, LL. D. and Barrister at Law; Author of the Institute of the Laws of England.
Wood, Thomas, 1661-1722.Date: M.DCC.XXVII. [1727]- Books
Creative lab / a collaboration between Creative Partnerships London South and the Helen Storey Foundation.
Creative Partnerships London South.Date: [2005]