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.
- Article
How the mental health system fails Black people
Accessing mental healthcare as a Black woman can be a challenging experience. Rianna Walcott shares her story, alongside those of three other women, to reveal the barriers she faced.
- Article
What Black women do when the NHS fails them
Sabrina-Maria Anderson explores misogynoir – hatred of Black women – within the NHS, and how women like her are consequently turning to other sources of medical support.
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Can isolation lead to manipulation?
Military-funded researchers wanted to know if isolation techniques could facilitate brainwashing. One neuroscientist suggested that it might improve our own control over our minds.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Mental Health Research Fund (later Mental Health Trust and Research Fund)
Date: 1951-1974Reference: PP/RKF/E.2Part of: Freudenberg, Rudolph Karl (1908-1993) and Freudenberg, Gerda (née Vorster) (1906-1995)- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Various Mental Health Research Fund publications
Date: c. 1960s-1970sReference: PP/RKF/E.2/5Part of: Freudenberg, Rudolph Karl (1908-1993) and Freudenberg, Gerda (née Vorster) (1906-1995)- Archives and manuscripts
J.S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Harvey Prize Fund, Leverhulme Trust Fund, Mental Health Research Fund
Date: 1969-1977Reference: PP/EBC/K.334Part of: Chain, Professor Sir Ernst Boris- Archives and manuscripts
Child Health Research Joint Charities Committee/Child Health Year
Date: 1962-1964Reference: SA/NBT/U.11/19Part of: National Birthday Trust Fund- Archives and manuscripts
Research Committee: agenda, circulated papers, minutes, some correspondence
Date: 1964-1970Reference: PP/RKF/E.2/2Part of: Freudenberg, Rudolph Karl (1908-1993) and Freudenberg, Gerda (née Vorster) (1906-1995)