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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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Identifying skin lightening agents in cosmetics

Could your moisturiser be damaging your health? If it contains skin-lightening agents, the answer is yes. But this is an area where consumers definitely do not have the upper hand.

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Disturbed minds and disruptive bodies

Prison officers tried to regulate women’s minds and bodies and maintain a new disciplinary routine in the second half of the 1800s.

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Enduring taboos and the future of skin bleaching

Many condemn skin bleaching in public while secretly lightening their own complexions. To break away from these taboos, we need honest information and open conversation.

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  • Liverpool Southern Hospital, Liverpool, Merseyside. Tinted lithograph, 1867, after Culshaw and Sumners.
  • Infirmary, Liverpool. Woodcut.
  • The Ross collection, Liverpool.
  • Liverpool Port Sanitary Authority rat-catchers dressed in protective clothing with traps and equipment, Liverpool, England. Photograph, 1900/1920.
  • Institutions: The Liverpool Museum of Anatom
  • Report on the health of Liverpool
  • Seamens' Orphan Institution, Liverpool, Merseyside. Wood engraving.
  • Alter attitudes to AIDS / Liverpool Health Promotion Agency.
  • Alter attitudes to AIDS / Liverpool Health Promotion Agency.
  • Liverpool Port Sanitary Authority rat-catchers dipping rats in buckets of petrol to kill fleas for plague control. Liverpool, England. Photograph, 1900/1920.
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