Stories
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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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The poetic language of health
When his doctors could only offer phone consultations, James Morland turned to poetry to make sense of the medical terms describing his symptoms and test results.
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The family food of a kebab van man
Melek Erdal celebrates the physical and mental resilience of her father Yusuf, forged by isolation and dislocation, and reinforced by the distinctive cuisine of his home country, Turkey.
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Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
Catalogue
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Exposures of quackery : being a series of articles upon, and analyses of, various patent medicines / [Editor of "Health news"].
Editor of "Health news."Date: [1896]- Ephemera
Health education news / editor: Michael Jacob ; reporter: Ruth Garland.
Date: 1985- Archives and manuscripts
Public Health (Journal of the Society)
Date: 1891-1994Reference: SA/SMO/J.3Part of: Society of Medical Officers of Health- Books
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Exposures of quackery : being a series of articles upon, and analysis of, various patent medicines / by the editor of "Health News."
Date: [1897?]- Archives and manuscripts
Monthly Circulars
Date: 1957-1976Reference: SA/SMO/J.4/1-7Part of: Society of Medical Officers of Health