Stories
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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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Confusion, guilt, and the battle to breastfeed
Most new mums are told that breast is best. But breastfeeding doesn’t always come as easily or naturally as you might imagine.
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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.
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The art of scientific glassblowing
Exciting things happen when art, craft, engineering and science collide. Glassblower Gayle Price is proof of that.
Catalogue
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Sterilisation correspondence
Date: 1964Reference: PP/CPB/G.7/3Part of: Blacker, Carlos Paton FRCP (1895-1975)- Archives and manuscripts
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Sterilisation correspondence
Date: 1965Reference: PP/CPB/G.7/4Part of: Blacker, Carlos Paton FRCP (1895-1975)- Archives and manuscripts
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Sterilisation correspondence
Date: 1962-1963Reference: PP/CPB/G.7/2Part of: Blacker, Carlos Paton FRCP (1895-1975)- Archives and manuscripts
Sterilisation of Syringes
Date: 1934-1945Reference: WA/PRL/HP/Sub/24/1Part of: Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories- Archives and manuscripts
Sterilisation correspondence
Date: 1962-1965Reference: PP/CPB/G.7/2-4Part of: Blacker, Carlos Paton FRCP (1895-1975)