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.
- Article
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.
- Article
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
- Archives and manuscripts
Medical Education of Women
Date: 1942-1969Reference: SA/MWF/G.1/1-5Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Archives and manuscripts
Ad hoc committee on Medical Education
Date: 1953-1959Reference: SA/MWF/G.2Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Second World Conference on Medical Education 1959
Date: 1956-1959Reference: SA/MWF/G.2/11Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Archives and manuscripts
American Medical Education
Date: 1925-1946Reference: SA/BMA/G.83-86Part of: British Medical Association- Archives and manuscripts
Medical Education Inter-departmental Committee on Medical Schools
Date: 1932-July 1933Reference: SA/BMA/G.69Part of: British Medical Association