Stories
- Article
Disability, education and prejudice
In the 1960s and 1970s, thalidomide survivors had to fight for a proper education. If they weren’t brought up in institutions, they were often viewed as objects of curiosity, encountering verbal and sometimes physical abuse, both at school and in the world beyond.
- In pictures
How an animation educated the army
In a 1940s cartoon intended to persuade US troops to take malaria medication, the makers pitted a clodhopping soldier against a wily mosquito. If only Private SNAFU had followed the government’s advice.
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The law of periodicity for menstruation
Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.
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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.
Catalogue
- Books
Education and the medical reform movement / W.H. McMenemey.
McMenemey, W. H.Date: 1966- Journals
Methods and problems of medical education / Division of Medical Education, Rockefeller Foundation.
Date: 1924-1932- Archives and manuscripts
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Education and medical career
Date: 1914-1936Reference: PP/GUT/A.1/1Part of: Guttmann, Sir Ludwig (1899-1980)- Archives and manuscripts
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Education and careers: coordination of medical training
Date: 1980-1986Reference: SA/MWF/F.1/20Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Books
Supporting pupils with medical needs : a good practice guide / Department for Education and Employment.
Date: 1996