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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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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The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
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The indelible harm caused by conversion therapy
With first-hand evidence from two powerful testimonies, neurologist Jules Montague explores the destructive history of conversion therapy, a punitive treatment designed to ‘cure’ people of homosexuality.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Cuttings, Minutes, reports, correspondence Medical Curriculum Committee
Date: 1943-1948Reference: SA/BMA/G.76Part of: British Medical Association- Books
The training of a doctor : report of the Medical Curriculum Committee of the British Medical Association.
British Medical Association. Medical Curriculum Committee.Date: 1948- Archives and manuscripts
British Medical Association, The Training of a Doctor, Report of the Medical Curriculum Committee
Date: 1948Reference: SA/CME/C/2Part of: Royal Commission on Medical Education 1966-1968- Books
The Registration of Infectious Disease / British Medical Association ; Parliamentary Bills Committee.
British Medical AssociationDate: 1879- Books
Report On Local Legislation As To Infectious Diseases / by Ernest Hart ; British Medical Association ; Parliamentary Bills Committee.
Hart, Ernest, 1835-1898Date: 1880