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.
- Book extract
The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
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A history of gestation outside the body
It’s been over 400 years since a Swiss alchemist theorised that foetuses could develop outside the womb. Claire Horn examines incubator technology past and present, and explores the possibilities recent prototypes might bring.
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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.
Catalogue
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From specifity to universalism in medical therapeutics : transformation in the nineteenth century United States / John Harley Warner.
Warner, John Harley, 1953-Date: 1990- Books
Bibliography of the history of medicine of the United States and Canada - 1954 / edited by Genevieve Miller.
Date: [1955]- Books
The people's health : health intervention and delivery in Mao's China, 1949-1983 / Zhou Xun.
Zhou, Xun, 1968-Date: [2020]- Books
Society, medicine and politics in colonial India / edited by Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison.
Date: 2018- Film
Better odds for a longer life.
Date: 1966