Stories
- Article
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.
- Article
Tragic artists and their all-consuming passions
Does having a debilitating disease help or hinder creative genius?
- Article
When monarchs healed the sick
Our current Queen fortunately doesn’t have to spend hours laying hands on the sick to cure them. But it was a different story for monarchs of the early modern era, whose touch was a sought-after treatment for scrofula.
- Photo story
Exploring Alvar Aalto’s Paimio Sanatorium
Seemingly small features help to make Alvar Aalto’s Paimio Sanatorium in Finland one healing element for the tuberculosis patients he designed it for.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Tuberculosis Association annual conference
Date: June 1948Reference: SA/BRT/B/4/1Part of: British Thoracic Society and predecessors- Archives and manuscripts
Tuberculosis among nurses
Date: 1937Reference: SA/BRT/C/2/6Part of: British Thoracic Society and predecessors- Archives and manuscripts
Tuberculosis Association [later known as British Tuberculosis Association / British Thoracic and Tuberculosis Association / British Thoracic Association]
Date: 1928-1982Reference: SA/BRT/BPart of: British Thoracic Society and predecessors- Digital Images
- Online
Tuberculosis and HIV
- Books
Tuberculosis / Dan Morse.
Morse, Dan, 1906-1985Date: 1967