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
- Books
Implementing change from within universities and colleges : 10 personal accounts / edited by Maria Slowey.
Date: 1995- Books
Research equipment needs in UK universities : a 'snapshot' study / [Kieron Flanagan [and others]].
Flanagan, Kieron.Date: 2000- Books
Talent, not technology : publicly funded research and innovation in the UK / [Ammon Salter [and others]].
Salter, Ammon J.Date: 2000- Books
International handbook of universities and other institutions of higher education / [joint editors, H.M.R. Keyes and D.J. Aitken ; assistant editor, Ann C.M. Taylor].
Date: 1978, ©1977- Archives and manuscripts
Universities, Training Colleges and Polytechnics Panel
Date: 1943-1944Reference: SA/RBC/C.6/7-9Part of: Research Board for the Correlation of Medical Science and Physical Education