Stories
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How slums make people sick
A newly gentrified corner of Bermondsey leaves little clue to its less salubrious history. But a few intrepid writers recorded the details of existence in one of London’s most squalid slums.
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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.
- Interview
Inside the mind of Ayurvedic Man’s curator, Bárbara Rodriguez Muñoz
The choices a curator makes – what goes in? what stays out? why? – are often as fascinating as the exhibition itself.
Catalogue
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Society, medicine and politics in colonial India / edited by Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison.
Date: 2018- Books
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British cholera : its nature and causes considered in connexion with sanitary improvement, and in comparison with Asiatic cholera / by Spencer Thomson.
Thomson Spencer, -1886.Date: 1848- Books
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London (ancient and modern) : from the sanitary and medical point of view / by G.V. Poore.
Date: 1889- Books
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History of the United States Sanitary Commission, being the general report of its work during the war of the rebellion / by Charles J. Stillé.
Date: 1868- Books
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The Sanitary Commission of the United States Army : a succinct narrative of its works and purposes.
Date: 1864