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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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Self-obsessing in the age of selfies

The tiny, joyful spark of a social media ‘like’ can lead to a damaging obsession. Find out how far people will go when their phone addiction gets the upper hand.

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NHS strikes and the decade of discontent

When the social unrest of the 1970s spread to the NHS, dissatisfied staff challenged the status quo for the first time in quarter of a century.

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The cook who became a pariah

New York, 1907. Mary Mallon spreads infection, unaware that her name will one day become synonymous with typhoid.

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  • A list of facts about AIDS by the Illinois Department of Public Health. Colour lithograph.
  • Information on how to protect yourself against the HIV virus and AIDS in wavy writing with an information line; advertisement by the Illinois Department of Public Health. Colour lithograph, 1992.
  • Cartoons illustrating ways in which you can't get AIDS including eating at restaurants and using toilets in public places; advertisement for the Minnesota AIDS Project by the Illinois Department of Public Health. Colour lithograph by Max.
  • A man and a woman sitting laughing at a bar on stools with two further figures either side of them in silhouette; advertisement about the risk of AIDS by the Illinois Department of Public Health. Lithograph, 1994.
  • A pregnancy test kit with a warning that if your pregnancy test is positive, you must also take the test for HIV to prevent the spread of AIDS and infecting your baby; advertisement for the AIDS information line by the Illinois Department pf Public Health. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • A pregnancy test kit with a warning that if your pregnancy test is positive, you must also take the test for HIV to prevent the spread of AIDS and infecting your baby; advertisement for the AIDS information line by the Illinois Department pf Public Health. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • A signed prescription for an HIV test with a pregnancy test kit and a warning that you must take the HIV test before you test positive for pregnancy to help prevent the spread of AIDS; advertisement for the AIDS information line by the Illinois Department of Public Health. Colour lithograph, 1993.
  • A signed prescription for an HIV test with a pregnancy test kit and a warning that you must take the HIV test before you test positive for pregnancy to help prevent the spread of AIDS; advertisement for the AIDS information line by the Illinois Department of Public Health. Colour lithograph, 1993.
  • Reasons for not rushing into sex the first time; advertisement by the Michigan Department of Public Health. Lithograph.
  • [Leaflet explaining how the Department of Health's herbal medicine licensing system safeguards the public].
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