Stories
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Remote romance and the common cold
Getting creatively romantic due to a virus sounds all too contemporary, but our archives show what socially distanced seduction looked like seven decades ago.
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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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The island of unclaimed bodies
In New York, those who live and die on the extreme edges of society are buried on an isolated island, often forgotten and unmourned. But recent legal changes aim to reduce stigma and restore their dignity.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
MRC Medical Cyclotron Unit
Medical Research Council Medical Cyclotron UnitDate: 1934-1961Reference: SA/MCU- Archives and manuscripts
MRC Cyclotron Unit Advisory Committee papers and correspondence
Date: 1961-1963Reference: PP/WVM/B/2/4Part of: Mayneord, Professor William Valentine- Archives and manuscripts
Medical Research Council Radiobiological Research Unit
Date: 1954-1959Reference: PP/ASP/C.9Part of: Parkes, Sir Alan Sterling (1900-1990)- Archives and manuscripts
Medical Research Council, Clinical Trials Unit Lunchtime Seminar
Hazel ThorntonDate: 2007Reference: PP/HTH/B/3/14/4Part of: Hazel Thornton: Archive- Books
Dunn Nutrition Unit : Cambridge, UK and Keneba, the Gambia, 1982-85 / Medical Research Council.
Medical Research Council (Great Britain). Dunn Nutrition Unit.Date: [1986?]