Stories
- Article
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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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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What Black women do when the NHS fails them
Sabrina-Maria Anderson explores misogynoir – hatred of Black women – within the NHS, and how women like her are consequently turning to other sources of medical support.
- Book extract
Of incubators, orchids and artificial wombs
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.
Catalogue
- Books
The need for national instruction in parentcraft / by Leslie Housden, Chairman, Parentcraft Committee, National Association of Maternity and Child Welfare Centres.
Housden, Leslie.Date: 1943- Books
National Conference on Infant Welfare : report of the proceedings of the National Conference on Infant Welfare, held at Kingsway Hall, London, on July 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, 1919.
National Conference on Infant Welfare (1919 : London)Date: 1919- Books
Second English-Speaking Conference on Infant Welfare held at Central Hall, Westminster, on July 5th, 6th and 7th, 1921 : report of the proceedings.
English-Speaking Conference on Infant Welfare 1921 : London, England)Date: 1921- Books
National conference on maternity and infant welfare : held in the Great Hall, British Medical Association House, Tavistock Square, London, W.C. 1, on July 5th, 6th and 7th, 1927 report of the proceedings.
National Conference on Maternity and Infant Welfare (1927 : London, England)Date: 1927- Books
Fourth English-speaking conference on maternity and child welfare : held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, London, S.W. on July 5th, 6th and 7th, 1926 report of the proceedings.
English-Speaking Conference on Maternity and Child Welfare 1926 : London, England)Date: 1926