Stories
- Article
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.
- Article
Two health centres, two ideologies
Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.
- Article
When monarchs healed the sick
Our current Queen fortunately doesn’t have to spend hours laying hands on the sick to cure them. But it was a different story for monarchs of the early modern era, whose touch was a sought-after treatment for scrofula.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
British Tuberculosis Association annual conference including joint meeting with the Society of Medical Officers of Health
Date: July 1960Reference: SA/BRT/B/4/10Part of: British Thoracic Society and predecessors- Books
Criteria for the classification & diagnosis of heart disease / by a committee... of the Heart Committee of the New York Tuberculosis and Health Association.
New York Tuberculosis and Health Association. Heart Committee.Date: 1929- Books
Criteria for the classification & diagnosis of heart disease / by the Criteria Committee of the Heart Committee of the New York Tuberculosis and Health Association.
New York Tuberculosis and Health Association. Heart Committee.Date: 1932- Books
Tuberculosis in the commonwealth 1947 : complete transactions of the Commonwealth and Empire Health and Tuberculosis Conference, London, July, 1947.
Commonwealth and Empire Health and Tuberculosis Conference (1947 : London, England)Date: 1947?]- Books
Tuberculosis in the Commonwealth : the full verbatim transactions of the Second Commonwealth and Empire Health and Tuberculosis Conference, held in London 5th-8th July, 1949.
Commonwealth and Empire Health and Tuberculosis Conference 1949 : London, England)Date: 1949]