Stories
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The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.
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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
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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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Eugenics and the welfare state
Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.
Catalogue
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Integrated clinical academic training / UCL School of Life and Medical Sciences Academic Careers Office.
University College, London. School of Life and Medical Sciences. Academic Careers OfficeDate: [2013]- Books
SLMS academic role models / UCL School of Life and Medical Sciences.
University College, London. School of Life and Medical SciencesDate: [2014?]- Videos
A career in pharmacology.
Date: 1961- Film
A career in pharmacology.
Date: 1961- Archives and manuscripts
Papers of Malcolm Andrew Ferguson-Smith, geneticist, Professor of Medical Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Ferguson-Smith, M. A. (Malcolm Andrew)Date: 1957-2008Reference: UGC 188