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IT’S IN THE BLOOD

Listener 19 December, 1992

Keywords: Health;

Richard Titmuss’s The Gift Relationship: from Human Blood to Social Policy is one of the most insightful social-science texts of the 20th century. In it he shows that how a community handles its blood-transfusion service is a paradigm for its handling of overall social relations. Which makes it all the more telling to step back from the current row and place the quality of the blood supply in the context of the total health service.

19th December 1992 | Comments Closed

THE 1977/78 DOWNTURN IN THE NEW ZEALAND ECONOMY

This was a part of the (Long) December 1992 version of In Stormy Seas which was never published.
Keywords: Statistics;

The problem of the 1977/78 downturn arose in a different way again. In the late 1980s advocates of the policies loosely called “Rogernomics” were wont to justify their proposals by referring to the poor economic [...]

2nd December 1992 | Comments Closed