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Father of the house

Stuart Evers thought he’d shaken off his family’s rigid definition of masculinity. But when he became a dad, those buried patriarchal ideas made an unexpected return.

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The housing that gives hope to refugees

A safe place of one’s own can be a source of healing and hope. George Kafka reports on two Athens-based projects helping displaced people by putting housing first.

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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK

Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.

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Picturing mental health

Ron Hampshire created artworks while resident at Netherne psychiatric hospital. What can we learn from them?

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  • Condoman, a cartoon figure, holds a packet of condoms on a beach; advertising safe sex among indigenous Australians. Colour lithograph by the Department of Health, Housing and Community Services, Australia, and the Aboriginal Health Workers of Australia (Queensland).
  • A horizontal pink condom inscribed with the words 'Cover yourself against AIDS'; advertisement for safe sex by the Commonwealth Department of Health, Housing, Local Government and Community Services. Colour lithograph.
  • A figure engulfed by a condom with another figure walking away to the right disconsolately; advertisement for safe sex by the Commonwealth Department of Health, Housing, Local Government and Community Services, Australia. Colour lithograph.
  • Cartoon sequence in which a black man has sex with a woman who has AIDS who he meets in a nightclub and brings it home to his wife and baby killing them all; a safe sex advertisement by the Department of Health, Housing, Local Government and Community Services, Aboriginal Health Workers of Australia (Queensland). Colour lithograph.
  • A multi-coloured wavy background with two black silhouettes reaching toward each other and an eye in between them; one of a series of [5] Aboriginal posters entitled 'Everybody's Business' concerning 'Caring for People with AIDS' commissioned by the Commonwealth Department of Health, Housing, Local Government and Community Services. Colour lithograph by Bronwyn Bancroft, 1992.
  • Hittite and Egyptian types of Astarte plaques and figurines deposited in Palestinian houses to ensure health and prosperity.
  • Alexander Fleming House (Department of Health and Social Security), London, England: exterior. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
  • Effective purchasing of HIV/AIDS-related services : a one-day seminar for health authorti and local authority purchasers at: BMA House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JP / British Medical Association Foundation for AIDS.
  • Effective purchasing of HIV/AIDS-related services : a one-day seminar for health authorti and local authority purchasers at: BMA House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JP / British Medical Association Foundation for AIDS.
  • A mother sits on a stool nursing an infant in her arms outside her simple house suggesting she is supporting herself and has avoided AIDS; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the AIDS Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Uganda. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
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