Stories
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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.
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The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
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Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
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Sharing Nature: Over the rainbow
Here’s your choice of the most meaningful nature photo on the theme of health.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Radford, Drs Maitland and Muriel
Radford, Maitland (b.1885 - d.1944)Date: 1894-1986Reference: PP/RAD- Books
Understanding the brain : towards a new learning science.
Date: [2002], ©2002- Books
- Online
The health of nations : a review of the works of Edwin Chadwick / with a biographical dissertation by Benjamin Ward Richardson.
Date: 1887- Archives and manuscripts
Medical Women's Federation
Medical Womens' FederationDate: 1879-1988Reference: SA/MWF- Archives and manuscripts
Medact
Medical Campaign against Nuclear Weapons (f. 1980)Date: c.1955-c.2008Reference: SA/MED