Introduction; Part 1: Early Life and Career to the End of 1941; ‘As the Son of a Farmer…’: Origins, Early Employment, and Personal Life; Politics: The Liberal Party, the ‘Fleet Street Parliament’, and Forward March; The Eugenics Society, Poverty and Population, and ‘Manpower and Health’; The Titmuss Gospel and Progressive Opinion; Part 2: From Problems of Social Policy to the London School of Economics; Problems of Social Policy: Researching and Fire-Watching; Titmuss and the Eugenics Society in War; Titmuss and the Media in the 1940s – a Growing Reputation; Population and Family: Parents Revolt and the Beginnings of Social Medicine; The London School of Economics and ‘Social Administration in a Changing Society’; Part 3: First Decade at the LSE; 1Setting Out His Stall; The Guillebaud Committee and the Early Years of the National Health Service; Pensions and Old Age; ‘We Have Our Differences and Do Not Always See Eye to Eye’: Social Work and Social Work Training; Essays on ‘The Welfare State’ and The Irresponsible Society; Part 4: Power and Influence: Titmuss, 1960 to 1973; ‘The Apostle of Equality’: Titmuss and R.H. Tawney; Mental Health, Community Care, and Medical Education; Mauritius, Tanzania, and Israel; Scottish Social Work and the Seebohm Committee; Commitment to Welfare and the Finer Committee on One-Parent Families; Titmuss and North America: Early Encounters and First Visit; Helping American Scholars on British Topics; Titmuss and President Johnson’s ‘War on Poverty’; ‘One of the Greatest Human Beings of Our Time’: Titmuss’s Influence on North American Thinking on Social Welfare; Part 5: Troubles?; The Labour Government, Social Policy, and the Supplementary Benefits Commission; A Public Figure in Turbulent Times: Vietnam, Race Relations, and the Common Market; Health Care, the Market, and the Institute of Economic Affairs: the Making of The Gift Relationship; ‘It Really Is Hell’: Disruption at the LSE; ‘A New Prophet Had Appeared in Our Midst’: Final Illness, Death, and Memorial Service; Part 6: Conclusion; A Commitment to Welfare: The Life and Work of Richard Titmuss.

This is the first full-length biography of Richard Titmuss and is based on detailed analysis of his own papers and writings and those of colleagues, associates, and critics. It also utilises a series of interviews carried out by the author with individuals who personally knew him.