Stories
- Article
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.
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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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Medics and the bomb
Would a nuclear attack on the UK overwhelm the NHS? At the height of the Cold War, despite government optimism, medics predicted doom.
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Inside the Cold War mind
Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.
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Catalogue
- Books
Explanatory memorandum on the Social Security Bill 1972.
Date: [1972]- Books
Second survey of aircraft noise annoyance around London (Heathrow) Airport / prepared by MIL Research Ltd. for Social Survey Division, on behalf of the Department of Trade and Industry.
Date: 1971- Books
The removal of cadaveric organs for transplantation : a code of practice drawn up by a Working Party on behalf of the Health Departments of Great Britain and Northern Ireland / [prepared by the Department of Health and Social Security and the Central Office of Information].
Great Britain. Department of Health and Social Security.Date: 1979- Journals
DHSS handbook of research and development / Department of Health and Social Security.
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Hospital in-patient enquiry. Main tables / Department of Health and Social Security, Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, Welsh Office.
Date: 1978-