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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Yoga gets physical
Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.
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How can we prevent violence?
Evidence shows that strategies to prevent some types of violence can be very effective, while other, less well-acknowledged forms continue unabated. But hope can still guide us into a more peaceful future.
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The amateur silversmith
It started as hobby and soon became a passion. Geraldine Holden tells us where the art and science of silver unite.
Catalogue
- Books
Health care for some : rights and rationing in the United States since 1930 / Beatrix Hoffman.
Hoffman, Beatrix Rebecca.Date: 2012- Books
Fighting for the future of food : activists versus agribusiness in the struggle over biotechnology / Rachel Schurman and William A. Munro.
Schurman, Rachel.Date: [2010], ©2010- Books
Mobilising social knowledge for social welfare : intermediary institutions in the political systems of the United States and Great Britain between the First and Second World Wars / Martin Bulmer.
Bulmer, MartinDate: 1995- Books
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Engendering democracy in Brazil : women's movements in transition politics / Sonia E. Alvarez.
Alvarez, Sonia E., 1956-Date: 1990- Pictures
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A man in a suit smiling with one finger raised, advocating use of condoms for gay men; an advertisement for safe sex by the Authority of Labor, Health and Social Affairs, Hamburg and the Office of Public Health - Health Promotion / AIDS. Colour lithograph by Transglobe Black Box and DMB&B.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 674455i