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Birthdays, appraisals and Harold Shipman

Our anonymous GP ponders how a prolific serial murderer has increased the workload of every family doctor.

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Ken’s ten: looking back at ten years of Wellcome Collection

Wellcome Collection founder Ken Arnold picks his favourite exhibits.

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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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When self-deception becomes global hoax

Being deceived isn’t always a case of believing someone else’s lie. Experiments have shown that many of us can be manipulated into accepting our own fictions as true.

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  • Photograph of Lambo evaluating questionnaires
  • Questionnaire on conditions of the Aged
  • The Benecol lifestyle questionnaire / McNeil Consumer Nutritionals UK Ltd.
  • The UK Coalition of People Living with HIV & AIDS questionnaire.
  • Nutrient deficiency test / Nutrition Laboratory.
  • Nutrient deficiency test / Nutrition Laboratory.
  • Nutrient deficiency test / Nutrition Laboratory.
  • Nutrient deficiency test / Nutrition Laboratory.
  • Uncle Ben's nutri-test : time for a change? / Master Foods.
  • New Benecol foods : actually reducing cholesterol / Lynne Joyner, Benecol Information Service.
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