Stories
- Article
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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Coronavirus, Crohn’s and me
Clinically vulnerable to COVID-19, Lucia Osborne-Crowley has been shut in her flat for months. With her chronic condition transformed into a life-threatening one, she explores what the pandemic is revealing about living with long-term illness.
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Tripping for spiritualism and science
Getting high in the name of religion or creativity has been practised for centuries. Now it seems hallucinogenics could help treat mental illnesses too.
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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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Institute of Ophthalmology - Committee of Management
Date: 1991 - 1992Reference: PP/ASH/C/6Part of: Ashton, Professor Norman- Archives and manuscripts
Royal Society of Medicine - Including Ophthalmology Section
Date: 1972 - 1978Reference: PP/ASH/C/14Part of: Ashton, Professor Norman- Archives and manuscripts
American Society of Ophthalmology
Date: 1978 - 1992Reference: PP/ASH/C/1Part of: Ashton, Professor Norman- Archives and manuscripts
Ashton, Professor Norman
Ashton, N.Date: 1924 - 1998Reference: PP/ASH- Archives and manuscripts
Careers information
Date: 1973 - 1983Reference: SA/BIO/C/7/1Part of: The Biochemical Society