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Between sickness and health

In early 2020, the subject Will Rees was studying – imaginary illnesses – took on a new relevance as everyone anxiously scanned themselves for Covid symptoms each day. But this kind of self-scrutiny is nothing new, as he reveals.

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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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Womb milk and the puzzle of the placenta

A human baby needs milk to survive – and this holds true even before it’s born. Joanna Wolfarth explores “womb milk”, as well as ancient and modern ideas about the placenta.

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Confronting male stereotypes in the classroom

Sometimes men just don’t like football. Writer and teacher Okechukwu Nzelu decides to be himself in front of his students.

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  • An account of the regular gradation in man, and in different animals and vegetables; and from the former to the latter / By Charles White.
  • An account of the regular gradation in man, and in different animals and vegetables; and from the former to the latter / By Charles White.
  • An account of the regular gradation in man, and in different animals and vegetables; and from the former to the latter / By Charles White.
  • An account of the regular gradation in man, and in different animals and vegetables; and from the former to the latter / By Charles White.
  • Edward Holme. Mezzotint by J. R. Jackson after W.B. Scott.
  • R. Morrison, Chinese Miscellany, Hwuy-pan
  • The house of Charles White on King Street, Manchester. Coloured lithograph by A. Aglio after J. Ralston, 1823.
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