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.
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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
- Books
Tuberculosis : a preventable and curable disease modern methods for the solution of the tuberculosis problem / by S. Adolphus Knopf.
Knopf, S. Adolphus (Sigard Adolphus), 1857-1940.Date: 1909- Books
Tuberculosis - the illustrated history of a disease. Vol. 1, Propos / Jacques Chrétien ; translated by Clare Pierard.
Chrétien, Jacques, 1922-Date: 1998- Books
Tuberculosis : a manual for biology teachers / prepared for the Council of the Tuberculosis and Health Associations of Greater New York by Grace T. Hallock.
Hallock, Grace T. (Grace Taber), 1893-1967.Date: 1947- Books
Tuberculosis / report of the Scottish Health Services Council's Committee on Tuberculosis.
Scottish Health Services Council. Committee on Tuberculosis.Date: 1951- Books
Tuberculosis / Elaine Landau.
Landau, Elaine.Date: [1995], ©1995