Stories
- Article
The stranger who started an epidemic
New Orleans, 1853. James McGuigan arrives in the port city and succumbs to yellow fever.
- Article
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.
- Article
When self-deception becomes global hoax
Being deceived isn’t always a case of believing someone else’s lie. Experiments have shown that many of us can be manipulated into accepting our own fictions as true.
- Long read
Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
Catalogue
- Books
Diabetes / Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.
Date: [1932?]- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
'Metropolitan Life Insurance Company'
Date: 1937-1938Reference: WA/HMM/CO/Chr/J.157Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Archives and manuscripts
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Date: 1970Reference: SA/DRS/C/1/108Part of: DrugScope- Books
Metropolitan cook book / Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.
Date: [1957], ©1957- Books
Simple goiter / Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.
Date: [between 1925 and 1929?]