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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.

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The ‘undesirable epileptic’

Abused in her marriage for being 'a sick woman', Aparna Nair looked to history to make sense of the response to her epilepsy. She discovered how centuries of fear and discrimination were often endorsed by science and legislation.

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Healthy scepticism

Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.

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Why gene editing can never eliminate disability

In a world where DNA testing and gene editing offer ways to eliminate certain disabilities, Jaipreet Virdi explores a more accepting and inclusive approach.

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  • The expert witness : and the applications of science and of art to human identification, criminal investigation, civil actions & history / by C. Ainsworth Mitchell.
  • The expert witness : and the applications of science and of art to human identification, criminal investigation, civil actions & history / by C. Ainsworth Mitchell.
  • The expert witness : and the applications of science and of art to human identification, criminal investigation, civil actions & history / by C. Ainsworth Mitchell.
  • The expert witness : and the applications of science and of art to human identification, criminal investigation, civil actions & history / by C. Ainsworth Mitchell.
  • The expert witness : and the applications of science and of art to human identification, criminal investigation, civil actions & history / by C. Ainsworth Mitchell.
  • The expert witness : and the applications of science and of art to human identification, criminal investigation, civil actions & history / by C. Ainsworth Mitchell.
  • A group of figures from antiquity are led into a garden by a woman with a telescope and a hand mirror. Etching.
  • Wisdom shows Britannia the measurements of the globe; figures representing other continents stand watching. Engraving by W. Swift after W.M. Craig.
  • Putti plan war manoeuvres on maps with the help of geometrical diagrams; representing geometry and military science. Etching by B. Picart, 1729, after himself.
  • Putti deprive a bird of air in a vacuum experiment, one plays at billiards, another plays with magnetised keys, while outside a storm rages: representing physics. Etching by B. Picart, 1729, after himself.
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