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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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Public health campaigns and the ‘threat’ of disability

By continuing to represent disability as the feared outcome of disease, public health campaigns help to perpetuate prejudice against disabled people.

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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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Designing better mental health wards

Bringing colour and natural light to tired, grubby mental health wards has a measurably positive effect on patients. A few groundbreaking projects are showing the way.

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  • Virile manhood : the official organ of the Laurance Institute of Health & Stamina Ltd. / Harold Laurance.
  • Virile manhood : the official organ of the Laurance Institute of Health & Stamina Ltd. / Harold Laurance.
  • Virile manhood : the official organ of the Laurance Institute of Health & Stamina Ltd. / Harold Laurance.
  • Virile manhood : the official organ of the Laurance Institute of Health & Stamina Ltd. / Harold Laurance.
  • www.mysexycity.com : February 14, 2006 / the Institute for Gay Men's Health, a collaboration of GMHC, Gay Men's Health Crisis, APLA, AIDS Project Los Angeles.
  • www.mysexycity.com : February 14, 2006 / the Institute for Gay Men's Health, a collaboration of GMHC, Gay Men's Health Crisis, APLA, AIDS Project Los Angeles.
  • I love my boo : we're about trust, respect and commitment : we're proud of who we are and how we love / The Institute for Gay Men's Health ; GMHC.
  • I love my boo : we're about trust, respect and commitment : we're proud of who we are and how we love / The Institute for Gay Men's Health ; GMHC.
  • Three numbered diagrams on how to sterilise needles with the message to protect yourself and others against HIV; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Folkehelsa Statens Institutt for Folkehelse (Norwegian Institute of Public Health). Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Two arms entwined one painted silver, the other gold with the words '[love without fear] in Swedish, Arabic, Chinese and English; one of a series of AIDS prevention advertisements by the Folkhälsoinstitutet [National Public Health Institute]. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
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