Stories
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Booze and bad behaviour
Our love of alcohol is like a party that’s lasted nine centuries. But there are signs that the demon drink is losing its appeal.
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Do good mothers make good democracy?
To be psychologically fit for democracy, one distinguished paediatrician argued that you need a ‘good enough mother’ – and that we must acknowledge the bad side of our feelings.
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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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Society, not Covid-19, makes us vulnerable
Rick Burgess coped with the death of his mother in February 2020 by immersing himself in the task of protecting his community from Covid-19 and challenging the government's failure to protect and support elderly and Disabled people during the pandemic.
Catalogue
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Bulletin officiel de l'Office national d'hygiène sociale.
France. Office national d'hygiène sociale.- Journals
Répertoire bibliographique d'hygiène sociale.
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A nurse, with activities performed by nurses. Colour lithograph by G. Hazan.
Hazan, G.Date: [192?-?]Reference: 676299i
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A warning against sexually transmitted diseases: in a three-horse race watched by Death, syphilis is about to overtake tuberculosis, while cancer comes third. Colour lithograph by E.-C. Jodelet, 1926.
Jodelet, Emmanuel-Charles, 1883-1973.Date: [1926]Reference: 545733i- Pictures
A tuberculosis nurse watching children free of tuberculosis playing in a park; representing the benefits of purchasing anti-tuberculosis stamps. Colour lithograph after E. Vilà, 192-.
Vilà, Emilio, 1887-1967.Date: [between 1920 and 1929]Reference: 675849i