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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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How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory

A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.

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Daria Martin on ‘Sensorium Tests’ and ‘At the Threshold’

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Life before assistive technology

When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.

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  • Syphilis: ten people, one of whom is diagnosed as having syphilis. Colour lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1940.
  • Six ill people in Uganda, with either AIDS or another disease; representing the difficulty of being sure that someone has AIDS. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995 (?).
  • Trahcoma: visual acuity test
  • Patente di abilitazione in chirurgia, e facoltà di esercitarla : Gli eccellentissimi SS. dottori, ed esaminatori del venerabil Collegio dei Medici, e Cerusici della Città di Firenze in sufficiente numero nella solita lora audienza adunati ... / [Collegio dei Medici di Firenze].
  • Patente di abilitazione in chirurgia, e facoltà di esercitarla : Gli eccellentissimi SS. dottori, ed esaminatori del venerabil Collegio dei Medici, e Cerusici della Città di Firenze in sufficiente numero nella solita lora audienza adunati ... / [Collegio dei Medici di Firenze].
  • A message about AIDS and HIV testing in Japanese black script bordered with vertical gold edges. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Diploma approbationis in clinica : Universis, et singulis praesentes litteras visuris, lecturis, et audituris, salutem in domino ...
  • Vortrag des Herrn Regierungs-Rathes Dr. Knolz über die Reform des Medicinalwesens Oesterreichs, gehalten in der Plenar-Versammlung der medicinischen Facultät am 27. März 1848.
  • Vortrag des Herrn Regierungs-Rathes Dr. Knolz über die Reform des Medicinalwesens Oesterreichs, gehalten in der Plenar-Versammlung der medicinischen Facultät am 27. März 1848.
  • Diploma approbationis in clinica : Universis, et singulis praesentes litteras visuris, lecturis, et audituris, salutem in domino ...
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