Stories
- Book extract
Of incubators, orchids and artificial wombs
In this extract from Claire Horn’s new book, ‘Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth’, she traces the development of the artificial womb, soon to become a reality.
- Article
NHS strikes and the decade of discontent
When the social unrest of the 1970s spread to the NHS, dissatisfied staff challenged the status quo for the first time in quarter of a century.
- 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.
- Article
Self-obsessing in the age of selfies
The tiny, joyful spark of a social media ‘like’ can lead to a damaging obsession. Find out how far people will go when their phone addiction gets the upper hand.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
National Survey of the Health and Development of Children (NSHD)
Date: 1946-1998Reference: SA/PIC/F/7Part of: Population Investigation Committee- Journals
DHSS handbook of research and development / Department of Health and Social Security.
- Archives and manuscripts
Clinical Genetics in Britain Related Documents
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 1958-1997Reference: GC/253/A/39/9Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Correspondence relating to the establishment of a cytogenetics laboratory in the Genetics Department at the University of Glasgow
Date: 24 Mar 1960-6 Aug 1962Reference: UGC 188/2/2/1Part of: Papers of Malcolm Andrew Ferguson-Smith, geneticist, Professor of Medical Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland- Archives and manuscripts
Strangeways Research Laboratory
Strangeways, T.S.P., 1866-1926.Date: c.1901-1999Reference: SA/SRL