As spaces, the Library, the Archive and the Museum have all played a significant part in the construction and contestation of biologically determined, medicalised ideas concerning race and health. In the fifth session of our seminar series on ‘Spaces of Sickness and Wellbeing’, Ross MacFarlane (Wellcome Collection) brings together a panel of speakers to discuss how such historical issues and their ongoing legacies can be addressed through research and practice in these sectors. Short presentations from Subhadra Das (formerly UCL), Alinta Sara (Imperial College London, formerly the Sickle Cell Society) and Eoin O’Cearnaigh (Wellcome Collection) respectively discuss the place of eugenics at University College London, recent curatorial collaboration between the Sickle Cell Society and the Black Cultural Archives and the building history of Wellcome Collection.
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