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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Pain, politics and the power of photography
Art historian Giulia Smith explains what she most admires in the work of Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, and how their approach makes illness political.
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The ancient doctors who refused payment
The NHS might only be 70 years old, but the idea of free healthcare goes back to Ancient Greece, when devout doctors provided their services without charge.
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Yoga gets physical
Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.
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Environment and efficiency : a study in the records of industrial schools and orphanages / by Mary Horner Thomson ; with a preface by J. Rendel Harris.
Thomson, Mary Horner.Date: 1912- Books
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Personal hygiene / ed. by Maurice Le Bosquet.
Le Bosquet, MauriceDate: 1907- Books
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Some neighbouring institutions. II. The Royal College of Surgeons.
Hewitt, Charles Richard, 1870-1931.Date: [1907]- Books
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Medicine in its economic relations : being the introductory address delivered at the Westminster Hospital Medical School, session 1876-7 / by W. H. Allchin.
Allchin, William Henry, 1846-1912.Date: [1876?]- Books
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Household economics : a course of lectures in the School of Economics of the University of Wisconsin / by Helen Campbell.
Campbell, Helen, 1839-1918.Date: 1907, ©1896