Stories
- Article
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.
- Article
The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
- Long read
Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
Catalogue
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Improving health in the United States : the role of health impact assessment / Committee on Health Impact Assessment, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council, National Research Council of the National Academies.
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Health Impact Assessment.Date: [2011], ©2011- Books
Integrity in scientific research : creating an environment that promotes responsible conduct / Committee on Assessing Integrity in Research Environments, Board on Health Sciences Policy and Division of Earth and Life Studies, Institute of Medicine, National Research Council of the National Academies.
Committee on Assessing Integrity in Research Environments (U.S.)Date: [2002], ©2002- Books
Environmental effects of transgenic plants : the scope and adequacy of regulation / Committee on Environmental Impacts associated with Commercialization of Transgenic Plants, Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council.
Date: [2002], ©2002- Books
Environmental tobacco smoke : measuring exposures and assessing health effects / Committee on Passive Smoking, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, National Research Council.
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Passive Smoking.Date: 1986- Books
A research strategy for environmental, health and safety aspects of engineered nanomaterials / Committee to Develop a Research Strategy for Environmental, Health, and Safety Aspects of Engineered Nanomaterials ; Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology ; Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology, Division on Earth and Life Sciences ; National Materials and Manufacturing Board, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies.
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee to Develop a Research Strategy for Environmental, Health, and Safety Aspects of Engineered Nanomaterials.Date: [2012], ©2012