Stories
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The birth of Britain's National Health Service
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
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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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How slums make people sick
A newly gentrified corner of Bermondsey leaves little clue to its less salubrious history. But a few intrepid writers recorded the details of existence in one of London’s most squalid slums.
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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
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Managing diabetes, managing medicine : chronic disease and clinical bureaucracy in post-war Britain / Martin D Moore.
Moore, Martin D.Date: 2019- Books
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Vaccinating Britain : mass vaccination and the public since the Second World War / Gareth Millward.
Millward, GarethDate: 2019- Books
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Vaccinating Britain : mass vaccination and the public since the Second World War / Gareth Millward.
Millward, GarethDate: 2019- Books
Re-inventing the "cry for help" : attempted suicide in Britain in the mid-twentieth century c.1937-1969 / Christopher James Millard.
Millard, Christopher James.Date: 2012- Books
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These are the times that try men's souls! A letter to John Frost. A prisoner in Newgate. By Henry Yorke.
Yorke, Henry Redhead, 1772-1813.Date: [1793]