Stories
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Eugenics and the welfare state
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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Is it really OK to not be OK?
Our mental healthcare system is still the poor relation of services that treat physical illness, and the pandemic has shone a spotlight on this situation. Campaigner James Downs argues for fundamental change.
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Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
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Hunting lost plants in botanical collections
A bark specimen at Kew recalls the story of a South American man who harvested the most potent source of the only effective malaria treatment available in the late 1800s. Killed for his work and forgotten by history, Manuel Mamani was a victim of the colonial juggernaut.
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An inquiry into the principles of political oeconomy: being an essay on the science of domestic policy in free nations. In which are particularly considered population, agriculture, ... public credit, and taxes. By Sir James Steuart, ... In three volumes. ...
Steuart, James, Sir, 1712-1780.Date: 1770- Books
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Remarks on the advantages and disadvantages of France and of Great-Britain with respect to commerce, and To the other Means of encreasing the Wealth and Power of a State. Being a (pretended) Translation from the English, written by Sir John Nickolls, and printed at Leyden 1754. Translated from the French Original.
Plumard de Dangeul, Louis Joseph.Date: MDCCLIV. [1754]- Books
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Several grievances given by a countrey man, anent decay of trade within the kingdom of Scotland.
Countrey man.Date: 1703]- Books
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Letters to men of reason, and the friends of the poor, on the hardships of the excise laws relating to malt and beer; more especially as they affect the inhabitants of cities and great towns. with a Few Remarks on the Late Regulations in the Corn Trade.
M.Date: 1774- Books
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A discourse on the natural disposition of mankind in respect to commerce; intended as a preliminary to a larger work, viz. The elements of commerce, and theory of taxes.
Tucker, Josiah, 1712-1799.Date: 1755?]