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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The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.
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What is air, and how do we know?
Watching bubbles in fermenting beer led 18th-century scientist Joseph Priestley to invent sparkling water – and to discover that different gases make up the air we breathe.
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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
Catalogue
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Social security in the United States.
United States. Social Security Administration.Date: 1957- Journals
Miscellaneous publication / prepared by Science and Education Administration.
Date: 1927-- Books
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Social workers from around the world observe social welfare in the United States / U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Social Security Administration].
United States. Social Security Administration.Date: [1952]- Books
Foreign medical graduates and physician manpower in the United States.
Date: 1974- Books
A host-parasite catalog of North American Tachinidae (Diptera) / by Paul H. Arnaud, Jr.
Arnaud, Paul H. (Paul Henri)Date: 1978