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Tragic artists and their all-consuming passions
Does having a debilitating disease help or hinder creative genius?
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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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The stranger who started an epidemic
New Orleans, 1853. James McGuigan arrives in the port city and succumbs to yellow fever.
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The colonist who faced the blue terror
India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
TS of "The Genetical Analysis of Infectious Disease Susceptibility"
Date: 1965Reference: PENROSE/2/37/7Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Books
Recognition of the relationship of sex to disease susceptibility / T.G. Benedek.
Benedek, Thomas GDate: 1974- Books
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Genetic control of immune responsiveness : relationship to disease susceptibility / edited by Hugh O. McDevitt and Maurice Landy.
Date: 1972- Books
Genes, chromosomes, and disease : from simple traits, to complex traits, to personalized medicine / Nicholas Wright Gillham.
Gillham, Nicholas W.Date: 2011- Books
Genetic susceptibility to infectious diseases / edited by Richard A. Kaslow, Janet M. McNicholl, Adrian V.S. Hill.
Date: [2008], ©2008