Stories
- Article
Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high
The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.
- Article
Having children as a fat woman
When she sought fertility advice, and at antenatal appointments, Ellie Levenson found that medics were openly anti-fat. Only years later can she evaluate the true repercussions of their words and actions.
- Article
The sum of my parts
Testing positive for a rogue gene meant Jessica Furseth was more susceptible to cancer. After the years of anger and dissociation from her body that followed, she began to pick up the pieces.
- Book extract
A doctor, his community and coronavirus
Reflecting on his experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic, GP Gavin Francis vividly recalls a home visit to a man stricken with breathing difficulties.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
Health Education CouncilDate: 1974-1979Reference: SA/HEC/B/24/132Part of: Health Education Council and Health Education Authority- Archives and manuscripts
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)Date: 1930s-2002Reference: SA/ASH- Archives and manuscripts
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
Date: 1980s-1990sReference: PP/CMF/JPart of: Fletcher, Charles Montague (1911-1995), epidemiologist- Archives and manuscripts
Action on Smoking and Health (Ash). Correspondence relating to ASH publications and ASH fact sheets nos. 1 to 9
Date: Nov 1984-Aug 1985Reference: SA/BAC/E/2/1Part of: BACUP (British Association of Cancer United Patients and their families and friends)- Archives and manuscripts
All-Party Parliamentary Group for Action on Smoking and Health
Date: 1983-1984Reference: SA/ASH/X/2/20Part of: Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)