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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Eugenics and the welfare state
Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.
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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 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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Fiftieth anniversary
Date: 1985-1986Reference: SA/PIC/C/9Part of: Population Investigation Committee- Archives and manuscripts
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Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders
Date: 1936-1966Reference: SA/PIC/C/2Part of: Population Investigation Committee- Books
Political biology : science and social values in human heredity from eugenics to epigenetics / Maurizio Meloni, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, UK.
Meloni, Maurizio, 1971-Date: 2016- Archives and manuscripts
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'History' Collection, assembled by Margaret Pyke
Date: 1907-1965Reference: SA/FPA/A23/58Part of: Family Planning Association- Books
Defectives in the land : disability and immigration in the age of eugenics / Douglas C. Baynton.
Baynton, Douglas C.Date: [2016]