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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NHS Blue: the colour of universal healthcare
The 1980s and 1990s saw ideas from the world of business infiltrating the NHS, including the introduction of an internal market, followed by a corporate branding exercise.
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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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The birth of Britain's National Health Service
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
Catalogue
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Public welfare, science, and propaganda in seventeeth century France : the innovations of Théophraste Renaudot / Howard M. Solomon.
Solomon, Howard M.Date: [1972]- Books
The needs of older people and public welfare services to meet them : an analysis and description of public welfare experience / Prepared by Elizabeth Wickenden for the Committee on Aging of the American Public Welfare Association.
Wickenden, Elizabeth, 1909-2001.Date: 1953- Books
Public health and social welfare in France : being a report of a tour made by members of the Women Public Health Officers' Association, 1-12 June, 1938.
Date: 1938- Books
Public relations in health and welfare / edited by Frances Schmidt and Harold N. Weiner.
Date: 1966- Books
The physician in the public welfare agency / prepared by the Medical Care Committee. Approved by the Board of Directors June 27, 1958.
American Public Welfare Association.Date: 1958