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 healing power of breathing
The healing powers of different breathing methods are said to help with a range of health challenges, from asthma to PTSD. Effie Webb traces their spiritual origins and explores the modern proliferation of breathwork therapies.
- Long read
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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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.
Catalogue
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Diagnostic flow chart for pulmonary tuberculosis: the National Leprosy and tuberculosis programme in Kenya. Colour lithograph by the Ministry of Health NLTP, ca. 2000.
Date: [2006?]Reference: 755195i- Books
The behavior of pulmonary tuberculous lesions : a pathological study / By E. M. Medlar.
Medlar, E. M. (Edgar Matthias), 1887-Date: [1955]- Books
Tuberculosis in Cyprus : an interim report on its incidence and means of control made under the auspices of the National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis / by Noel Dean Bardswell.
Bardswell, Noel D. (Noel Dean), 1871-Date: 1937- Ephemera
Keep an eye on your chest / NAPT.
Date: [between 1950 and 1959]- Ephemera
The crusade of the double-barred cross : $10.00 Christmas seal bond : the campaign against tuberculosis ... / National Tuberculosis Association.
National Tuberculosis Association.Date: 1950