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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction

Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.

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Chemical highs and psychedelic research

Could recreational drugs make you happy? Kate Wilkinson explores why keen clubber Simon believes taking psychedelics has helped him develop as a person.

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Ancestry, privacy and the family tree

Wanting to find out more about her Jamaican grandfather, Tanya Perdikou contemplates DNA testing. But first she has to consider the potential impact of unexpected results.

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How the Peckham Experiment inspired my fiction

Find out how an unruly mass of archive material from a 1930s radical health centre has inspired brand new writing.

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  • Living with differences : sexuality, values and the teacher : a course for teachers responsible for PSD, health education and religious studies on personal, religious and moral education in the age of AIDS : 9th-11th June, 1989 / University of Hull Social Values Research Centre.
  • Living with differences : sexuality, values and the teacher : a course for teachers responsible for PSD, health education and religious studies on personal, religious and moral education in the age of AIDS : 9th-11th June, 1989 / University of Hull Social Values Research Centre.
  • Living with differences : sexuality, values and the teacher : a course for teachers responsible for PSD, health education and religious studies on personal, religious and moral education in the age of AIDS : 9th-11th June, 1989 / University of Hull Social Values Research Centre.
  • An advertisement for an information evening on naturopathy and HIV with Dieter Wolf, physician and director of clinical research for naturopathy at Moabit hospital organised by Kursiv, the Centre for AIDS and advice for gay men. Photocopy, ca. 1995.
  • Two groups of graphic figures dancing in circles around a heart and a condom; advertisement for the Vanguard Project, a research project aimed at educating young men on safe sex by the British Columbia Centre of Excellence in HIV/AIDS. Colour lithograph by John Ferrie, 1994.
  • The AIDS Walk for Life on Sunday October 2nd 1994 at Rundle Park Family Centre, Edmonton, Canada. Colour lithograph by Robert Falconer and Cheryl Lieberman.
  • Details of the AIDS Walk for Life on Sunday October 2nd 1994 at Rundle Park Family Centre, Edmonton, Canada. Colour lithograph by Robert Falconer and Cheryl Lieberman.
  • A poor family starves in the centre of Paris: a workman brings them a bowl of soup, a banker for a "Philanthropic bank" ignores them, public funds are spent on a new stock exchange, and books are advertised advocating self-help. Lithograph by Villain after N.-T. Charlet, 1840.
  • Painted figures reach up towards the world representing an advertisement for World AIDS Day, December 1st, by the National AIDS Strategy [Canada]. Colour lithograph by Vivian Reiss and Quorum Graphics.
  • Playing cards with a condom and a warning gambling games are dangerous when it comes to AIDS; an advertisement by the Lions Club of Bombay Hilltop and the HIV/AIDS Information and Guidance Centre in Bombay. Lithograph, ca. 1996.
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