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When self-deception becomes global hoax

Being deceived isn’t always a case of believing someone else’s lie. Experiments have shown that many of us can be manipulated into accepting our own fictions as true.

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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.

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Between sickness and health

In early 2020, the subject Will Rees was studying – imaginary illnesses – took on a new relevance as everyone anxiously scanned themselves for Covid symptoms each day. But this kind of self-scrutiny is nothing new, as he reveals.

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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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  • G20 leaders : to end AIDS, treat all people! : 15 million by 2015 / HealthGAP.org.
  • G20 leaders : to end AIDS, treat all people! : 15 million by 2015 / HealthGAP.org.
  • A woman tending corn in a field recommends using the coil: the Acquire Project for family planning in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • A man puts his arm around a woman with a speech bubble above them containing a condom; a safe-sex advertisement by the NGO AIDS Consortium with PATH in Kenya. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • Two hands wrap around each other to form the shape of the AIDS red ribbon against a grainy backdrop of the world within a circle inscribed with the slogan 'Shared rights. Shared responsibility'; an advertisement by the Kenya National AIDS/STD Control Programme, part of the Kenya Ministry of Health. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • A man and wife with their two children representing a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the NGO AIDS Consortium with PATH in Kenya. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • A Maori man holding a flaming torch; advertising the 11th Internernational AIDS Candlelight Memorial and Mobilization organized by Global AIDS Action Network on Sunday 22nd May, part of a project by the New Zealand AIDS Foundation. Colour lithograph by Stephen A'Court.
  • A group of young people sitting under a tree being taught the 'Facts about AIDS' by a man sitting in a chair with thatched mud houses beyond; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the NGO AIDS Consortium with PATH in Kenya. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • Brain drain? : depression, mood swings, risk-taking, mid-week blues, rage, lethargy, low self-esteem, neglect, emotional... / Camden & Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust ; designed by Eureka! Graphic Design Limited.
  • Brain drain? : depression, mood swings, risk-taking, mid-week blues, rage, lethargy, low self-esteem, neglect, emotional... / Camden & Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust ; designed by Eureka! Graphic Design Limited.
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