Stories
- Article
Why gene editing can never eliminate disability
In a world where DNA testing and gene editing offer ways to eliminate certain disabilities, Jaipreet Virdi explores a more accepting and inclusive approach.
- 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.
- Article
Born in the NHS
Despite underfunding, strikes and scandals, the first two decades of the 2000s has seen the British people’s love of and loyalty to the NHS soar.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
Catalogue
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Report of the fourth conference on medical care in the bituminous coal mine area / sponsored by the Committee on Medical Care for Industrial Workers of the Council on Medical Service and Council on Industrial Health of the American Medical Association.
Conference on Medical Care in the Bituminous Coal Mine Area 1956 : Charleston, West Virginia)Date: 1956- Books
The healthy way to... weigh less / American Medical Association Council on Foods and Nutrition.
Date: 1966- Books
Medical-hospital problems in the bituminous coal mining areas : report of a conference sponsored by the Committee on Medical Care for Industrial Workers of the Council on Medical Service and Council on Industrial Health : Charleston, West Virginia, September 6-7, 1952 / American Medical Association.
Date: [1953?]- Books
Statements and decisions of the Council on Foods and Nutrition of the American Medical Association, 1957.
Council on Foods and Nutrition (American Medical Association)Date: 1957- Books
A survey of union health centers, 1958 / Committee on Medical Care for Industrial Workers of the Council on Medical Service and Council on Industrial Health.
American Medical Association. Committee on Medical Care for Industrial Workers.Date: [1958], ©1958