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 ambivalence of air
Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.
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Fake news and the flu
Discover how history shows that fake news could play a deadly role – by generating potentially lethal misinformation during a future pandemic.
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The building as tool of healing
When we’re ill, it’s not just medical care that helps to treat us. Architects have discovered that the right environment can play an important part too.
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Presidential address at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, Toronto, 1912 / J. Geo. Adami.
Adami, J. George (John George), 1862-1926.Date: 1912- Archives and manuscripts
Tuberculosis - Scotland's urgent health problem
Date: 1950sReference: SA/NPT/A/6/4/4/13Part of: National Association for the Prevention of Consumption and other forms of Tuberculosis, successor and associated bodies- Archives and manuscripts
Tuberculosis: 20 questions - and the answers
Date: [1968-1984]Reference: SA/NPT/A/6/4/3/98Part of: National Association for the Prevention of Consumption and other forms of Tuberculosis, successor and associated bodies- Archives and manuscripts
Tuberculosis - twenty-one questions and their answers
Date: c.1950-1976Reference: SA/NPT/A/6/4/2/6Part of: National Association for the Prevention of Consumption and other forms of Tuberculosis, successor and associated bodies- Archives and manuscripts
Nurse advises - prevent tuberculosis
Date: 1950sReference: SA/NPT/A/6/5/38Part of: National Association for the Prevention of Consumption and other forms of Tuberculosis, successor and associated bodies