Stories
- Article
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.
- In pictures
The friendly societies and healthcare
For a couple of centuries, friendly societies plugged the healthcare gap between expensive private care and charitable institutions for many thousands of people in the UK.
- 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
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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Correspondence with the Department of Health and Social Services
Date: 1980 - 1981Reference: SA/FPA/C/F/7/3/3Part of: Family Planning Association- Journals
The newsletter of the ESRC Genomics Network.
ESRC Genomics Network.Date: 2005-- Journals
- Online
The newsletter of the ESRC Genomics Network.
ESRC Genomics Network.Date: 2005-- Books
Mentoring socially excluded young people : lessons from practice / prepared by Alison Skinner, Jennie Fleming.
Skinner Alison, 1948-Date: 1999- Books
The making of public policy / ESRC Genomics Network.
Date: [2007]