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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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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.
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Date: 1973 - 1983Reference: SA/BIO/C/7/1Part of: The Biochemical Society- Books
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Two funeral sermons preached by Henry Phillipps, M. A. of both Universities, and sometime Fellow of Magdalen-College, Oxon.
Phillipps, Henry.Date: 1705- Books
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Two sermons: I. An enquiry how far the knowledge and manners of the world can, with safety or propriety, be adopted in the clerical character - Preached at the Visitation of the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Chichester, at Hastings, June 19, 1787. II. The present state of discipline, manners and learning in our universities; in which are noticed some Misrepresentations on this Subject in a Work entitled ̀̀the Task''-Preached before the University of Cambridge, Dec. 2, 1787. By J. Lettice, B. D. Vicar of Peasmarsh, in Sussex, and Late Fellow of Sidney-Sussex College, Cambridge.
Lettice, John, 1737-1832.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Archives and manuscripts
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Statements on Candidates for a Harvard Fellowship
Date: Nov 1952 - Dec 1952Reference: HALDANE/3/1/1/7/22Part of: Haldane Papers- Books
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Sermons on various subjects. In Two volumes. ... . I. Of Justification by Christ. -34 II. The Almost Christian. - -35 III. The Extent and Reasonableness of Self-Denial. - - - -36 IV. The Necessity and Benefits of Religious Societies. - - 37 V. Intercession every Christian's Duty. 38 VI. The Great Duty of Family-Religion. 39 Vii. The Heinous Sin of profane Cursing and Swearing. - - - - 40 Viii. Thankfulness for Mercies received, a necessary Duty. IX. The Eternity of Hell-Torments. - 41 By George Whitefield, A. B. of Pembroke College, Oxford.
Whitefield, George, 1714-1770.Date: 1739