Stories
- Article
Equality in genetics
Genetic counsellor Sasha Henriques harnessed her energy and resolve to tackle the racial biases she saw in her profession – with positive and promising results.
- 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.
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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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Why gene editing can never eliminate disability
In a world where DNA testing and gene editing offer ways to eliminate certain disabilities, Jaipreet Virdi explores a more accepting and inclusive approach.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Ihpp: Genetic Testing
Date: 2002-2004Reference: SA/WHL/12/13Part of: Women's Health Library: archive- Archives and manuscripts
Volume 17. 'Genetic Testing'
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 1994-2003Reference: GC/253/A/17Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
HGC Working Party on Preconception Genetic Testing
Date: September 2010Reference: SA/SCT/C/2/5/3Part of: Brent Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Centre- Books
- Online
Consultation document on preimplantation genetic diagnosis / Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and Advisory Committee on Genetic Testing.
Great Britain. Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority.Date: 1999- Books
Genetic testing, screening and 'eugenics' / Genetic Interest Group.
Date: 1999