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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Coronavirus, Crohn’s and me
Clinically vulnerable to COVID-19, Lucia Osborne-Crowley has been shut in her flat for months. With her chronic condition transformed into a life-threatening one, she explores what the pandemic is revealing about living with long-term illness.
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Tripping for spiritualism and science
Getting high in the name of religion or creativity has been practised for centuries. Now it seems hallucinogenics could help treat mental illnesses too.
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Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
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Letters between J B S Haldane and the UCL Finance Secretary
Date: Jun 1939 - Sep 1939Reference: HALDANE/3/4/1/1/19Part of: Haldane Papers- Archives and manuscripts
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Letters between A C Fabergé and the University of London
Date: Mar 1940 - Apr 1940Reference: HALDANE/3/4/2/3Part of: Haldane Papers- Archives and manuscripts
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Letters between the University of London and A C Fabergé
Date: Apr 1940 - May 1940Reference: HALDANE/3/4/2/6Part of: Haldane Papers- Archives and manuscripts
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Letters between The Rockefeller Foundation and UCL
Date: May 1943 - June 1943Reference: HALDANE/3/4/1/1/43Part of: Haldane Papers- Archives and manuscripts
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Letters between The Rockefeller Foundation and UCL
Date: Jun 1944 - Jul 1944Reference: HALDANE/3/4/1/1/49Part of: Haldane Papers