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Eugenics and the welfare state
| Indy BhullarGergo Varga
Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.
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A story of death, trauma and austerity
| Marienna Pope-Weidemann
Marienna Pope-Weidemann, whose teenage cousin Gaia died after going missing, advocates a rethink of our systems, which currently fail many in mental distress.
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Louis Wain’s cryptic cats
| Bryony Benge-Abbott
Once famous for his quirky cat illustrations, today Louis Wain is often portrayed as a ‘psychotic’ artist whose illness can be mapped out through his drawings. Here Bryony Benge-Abbott takes a more rounded view.
- Book extract
- Book extract
Of incubators, orchids and artificial wombs
| Claire HornSteven Pocock
In this extract from Claire Horn’s new book, ‘Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth’, she traces the development of the artificial womb, soon to become a reality.