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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.

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Chemotherapy-day drawings

Undergoing treatment for bowel cancer, artist Clare Smith produced around 70 abstract drawings while sitting in the chemotherapy chair. She reflects on how creativity can bring respite in a crisis.

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Air of threat

Novelist Chloe Aridjis vividly describes the suffocating atmosphere of Mexico City, as a combination of topography, crowded neighbourhoods, and reckless political diktats create a downward spiral.

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Synaesthesia, or when senses overlap

What’s it like to see heartbeats, taste Tube stations or hear paintings?

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  • Page 14, An abstract from the account of the Asylum...
  • Page 14, An abstract from the account of the Asylum...
  • Autobiography ... A short abstract of a long life / with a memoir by Emil Novak.
  • An abstract from the account of the Asylum...Instituted in...1758 / Lambeth Asylum for Orphan Girls. Title page.
  • An abstract of midwifry, for the use of the Lying-in Infirmary. [-A single lecture in midwifry, on the glass machine. -The institution and oeconomy of the ... Infirmary] / [Sir Richard Manningham].
  • An abstract of midwifry, for the use of the Lying-in Infirmary. [-A single lecture in midwifry, on the glass machine. -The institution and oeconomy of the ... Infirmary] / [Sir Richard Manningham].
  • October 29 - November 2, 1990, Montreux, Switzerland : Assessing AIDS prevention : international conference : abstract submission deadline June 15, 1990, registration deadline September 30, 1990 / Institut Universitaire de Médecine Sociale Préventive.
  • An abstract white-washed figure with a red dot at its centre; a painting by Christian P. c/o the Bavarian AIDS Foundation; an appeal for donations to help those affected by AIDS. Colour lithograph.
  • The yellow and green silhouettes of abstract figures with the statement 'Equal rights shared responsibility' representing an advertisement for World AIDS Day on 1st December 1995 by the Folkhälsoinstitutet [National Public Health Institute]. Colour lithograph, 1995.
  • Abstract of quarantine regulations : it is in the first place to be observed, that all persons are presumed to know, and are bound to take notice, not only of quarantine regulations established by Act of Parliament, (as they are of any other Public Act), but likewise every Order in Council made for the performance of quarantine.
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