Stories
- Article
Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
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Pain, politics and the power of photography
Art historian Giulia Smith explains what she most admires in the work of Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, and how their approach makes illness political.
- Long read
Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
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Coronavirus, Crohn’s and me
Clinically vulnerable to COVID-19, Lucia Osborne-Crowley has been shut in her flat for months. With her chronic condition transformed into a life-threatening one, she explores what the pandemic is revealing about living with long-term illness.
Catalogue
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The economics of health and medical care : proceedings of the conference on the economics of health amd medical care May 10-12, 1962.
Conference on the Economics of Health and Medical Care (1962 : University of Michigan)Date: 1964- Books
Nursing services and insurance for medical care in Brattleboro, Vermont : a study of the activities of the Thomas Thompson Trust / by Allon Peebles and Valeria D. McDermott.
Peebles, Allon, 1900-1962.Date: [1932]- Books
Health policy and economics : strategic issues in health care management / edited by Manouche Tavakoli, Huw T.O. Davies and Mo Malek.
Date: [2001], ©2001- Books
Formative years : children's health in the United States, 1880-2000 / edited by Alexandra Minna Stern, Howard Markel.
Date: [2002], ©2002- Books
Poverty, inequality and health : an international perspective / edited by David A. Leon and Gill Walt.
Date: 2001