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.
- Article
A story of death, trauma and austerity
Marienna Pope-Weidemann, whose teenage cousin Gaia died after going missing, advocates a rethink of our systems, which currently fail many in mental distress.
- Article
Louis Wain’s cryptic cats
Once famous for his quirky cat illustrations, today Louis Wain is often portrayed as a ‘psychotic’ artist whose illness can be mapped out through his drawings. Here Bryony Benge-Abbott takes a more rounded view.
- 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
Poverty bites : food, health and poor families / Elizabeth Dowler and Sheila Turner, with Barbara Dobson.
Dowler, Elizabeth, 1951-Date: [2001]- Books
Health for a change : the provision of preventive health care in pregnancy and early childhood / Sue Dowling.
Dowling, SueDate: [1983]- Books
Social insecurity : single mothers on benefit / Jane Streather and Stuart Weir.
Streather, Jane.Date: 1974- Books
Not to be ignored : young people, poverty and health / Anne Dennehy, Lee Smith and Paul Harker with George Davey Smith and Yoav Ben-Shlomo.
Dennehy, AnneDate: [1997]- Books
Campaigning for the poor : CPAG and the politics of welfare / Michael McCarthy; foreword by Peter Townsend.
McCarthy, Michael.Date: [1986], ©1986