Stories
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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 music opens the doors of memory and the mind
People living with dementia can often still listen, perform or move to music. What does this tell us about how memories are formed?
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Befriending heavy breathers
Read the fascinating story behind the rare manual that helped volunteers on one of Britain’s first free telephone helplines to deal with masturbating callers.
- Long read
Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
Catalogue
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Human sentience before birth / a report by the Commission of Inquiry into Fetal Sentience.
Date: 1996- Books
Second interim report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the relations of human and animal tuberculosis.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Tuberculosis.Date: 1908- Archives and manuscripts
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Report of the Education Commission
Date: Aug 1945Reference: HALDANE/4/8/2/8Part of: Haldane Papers- Books
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Interim report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the relations of human and animal tuberculosis.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Tuberculosis.Date: 1904- 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