Stories
- Article
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.
- Long read
Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
- Long read
The ambivalence of air
Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.
Catalogue
- Books
Control of hereditary diseases : report of a WHO scientific group.
Date: 1996- Books
Prospects in the control of genetic disease / by Arnold Sorsby.
Sorsby, Arnold, 1900-1980.Date: 1952- Books
Registers for the detection and prevention of genetic disease / edited by Alan E. H. Emery, James R. Miller.
Date: [1976], ©1976- Books
The new genetics and clinical practice / D.J. Weatherall.
Weatherall, D. J.Date: 1985- Books
The new genetics and clinical practice / D.J. Weatherall.
Weatherall, D. J.Date: [1982?]