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
WhatsApp aunties and the spread of fake news
The advantages of WhatApp chat groups – especially as a cost-free way of keeping in touch with family around the world – make them fertile ground for the spread of bogus medical advice. Writer Rianna Walcott explores how to encourage ‘aunties’ in the community to question the truth of unattributed health hoaxes.
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The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
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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.
Catalogue
- Books
Complementary and alternative medicine in the United States / Committee on the Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine by the American Public, Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.
Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on the Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine by the American Public.Date: [2005], ©2005- Books
Exposure of the American people to Iodine-131 from Nevada nuclear-bomb tests : review of the National Cancer Institute report and public health implications / Committee on Thyroid Screening Related to I-131 Exposure, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine, and Committee on Exposure of the American People to I-131 from the Nevada Atomic Bomb Tests, Board on Radiation Effects Research, Commission on Life Scienes, National Research Council.
Date: 1999- Journals
Cumulated index medicus / National Library of Medicine.
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
"Pamphlets and booklets of direct interest in formation of FPA"
Date: 1926-1945Reference: SA/FPA/SR14Part of: Family Planning Association- Books
Leading health indicators for healthy people 2020 : letter report / Committee on Leading Health Indicators for Healthy People 2020, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
Date: [2011], ©2011