The Briefing Room
General Category => Economy/Business => Topic started by: rangerrebew on August 31, 2017, 11:25:22 am
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Bread for All: The Origins of the Welfare State
Chris Renwick Allen Lane: 2017. ISBN: 9780241186688
Many doctors were initially reluctant to work for the UK National Health Service.
The back cover of historian Chris Renwick's account of the British welfare state, Bread for All, offers an enticing statement for those interested in the role of science in social and policy change. That is, that this monumental programme was “linked by one overarching idea: that through rational and purposeful intervention, government can remake society”.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v548/n7669/full/548522a.html?foxtrotcallback=true