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.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
- Article
Dealing with the dead after a nuclear attack
Cold War-era predictions of death on a vast scale became routine. But the British authorities were less prepared to dispose of the bodies.
Catalogue
- Journals
Health and welfare services in Scotland / Scottish Home and Health Dept.
Date: [-1969]- Books
Review of the Mental Health Act 1959 : presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Social Services, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Secretary of State for Wales and the Lord Chancellor by Command of Her Majesty.
Date: [1978]- Journals
Report of the Department of Health for Scotland.
Date: 1947-1962- Books
Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the fire at Fairfield Home, Edwalton, Nottinghamshire on 15 December 1974.
Date: 1975- Books
- Online
Health, welfare, and safety in non-industrial employment : hours of employment of juveniles / report by a committee of enquiry.
Date: [1949]