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
Two health centres, two ideologies
Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.
- Article
Desperate housewives and suburban neurosis
Discover how a pioneering health centre replaced housewives’ supposedly empty home lives with a social space that encouraged healthy child rearing.
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
Catalogue
- Books
Economic aspects of health and human development / Khairuddin Yusof, Zinal Aznam Yusof.
Khairuddin Yusof.Date: 1979- Books
Biotechnology and medical innovation : socio-economic assessment of the technology, the potential and the products / Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development.
Date: 1997- E-journals
- Online
Economics and human biology
Date: ©2003-- Books
- Online
The cost of inequality : putting a price on health / Les Mayhew.
Mayhew, LesDate: [2021]- Books
Decolonizing healthcare innovation : low-cost solutions from low-income countries / Matthew Harris.
Harris, Matthew, 1972-Date: 2024