Stories
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The stranger who started an epidemic
New Orleans, 1853. James McGuigan arrives in the port city and succumbs to yellow fever.
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Equality in genetics
Genetic counsellor Sasha Henriques harnessed her energy and resolve to tackle the racial biases she saw in her profession – with positive and promising results.
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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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When you can’t return home
Migrants and refugees cannot choose to return home, so homesickness becomes a profound and long-lasting feeling. This powerful force infuses migrant cultures, and is rarely given the serious attention it warrants.
Catalogue
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Defectives in the land : disability and immigration in the age of eugenics / Douglas C. Baynton.
Baynton, Douglas C.Date: [2016]- Books
Gender and the long postwar : the United States and the two Germanys, 1945-1989 / edited by Karen Hagemann, Sonya Michel.
Date: [2014]- Books
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Annual reports of the Commissioners of Emigration of the state of New York, from the organization of the Commission, May 5, 1847, to 1860, inclusive : together with tables and reports, and other official documents ...
New York (State). Commissioners of Emigration.Date: 1861- Books
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Immigration : a world movement and its American significance / by Henry Pratt Fairchild.
Fairchild, Henry Pratt, 1880-1956.Date: 1913- Books
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Information to those who would remove to America, written some time since by Dr. Benjamin Franklin.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.Date: 1796]