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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It’s getting mighty crowded
Mid-20th-century population-density research on mice produced a whiskered apocalypse, predicted to become the fate of humans too. But perhaps a more compassionate approach could fend this off.
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The castration effect
Discover how testosterone – or the lack of it – affects the male body, from eunuch slaves to castrato singers, and on to hormone reduction in modern prostate cancer treatment.
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Sharing Nature: Over the rainbow
Here’s your choice of the most meaningful nature photo on the theme of health.
Catalogue
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Population growth and economic development : report on the consultative meeting of economists convened by the United Nations Population Fund, 28-29 September 1992, New York.
Date: [1993], ©1993- Archives and manuscripts
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Zero Population Growth
Date: c.1970-1972Reference: SA/BCC/C.40Part of: Birth Control Campaign- Archives and manuscripts
Fairfield Osborn 'Our Reproductive Potential', Symposium on Resource Development and Population Growth, New York City
Date: 20th centuryReference: GC/142/22/4Part of: Nicholson, (Edward) Max, CB, CVO- Books
Population growth and diet, 1600-1850 / L.M. Cullen.
Cullen, L. M.Date: 1981- Archives and manuscripts
The Growth of World Population: Analysis of the Problems and Recommendations for Research and Training
Date: 1963Reference: PP/CPB/H.2/42Part of: Blacker, Carlos Paton FRCP (1895-1975)