Stories
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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 hidden history of homesickness
Gail Tolley delves into the history of homesickness and discovers that its rich past holds a clue to how we view the experience today.
- In pictures
The history of sanatoriums and surveillance
The sanatorium treatment for tuberculosis was a curious combination of sunshine, fresh air, exercise and constant surveillance.
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Yoga gets physical
Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.
Catalogue
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Tuberculosis : history of an infectious disease.
Date: 1996- Books
Tuberculosis - the illustrated history of a disease. Vol. 1, Propos / Jacques Chrétien ; translated by Clare Pierard.
Chrétien, Jacques, 1922-Date: 1998- Archives and manuscripts
General Correspondence
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2013 - 2015Reference: GC/253/A/55/1Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Books
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A page in the natural history of pulmonary tuberculosis / by A. K. Chalmers.
Chalmers, Archibald Kerr.Date: 1913- Videos
Defeat tuberculosis.
Date: 1943