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
When you can’t return home
Migrants and refugees cannot choose to return home, so homesickness becomes a profound and long-lasting feeling. This powerful force infuses migrant cultures, and is rarely given the serious attention it warrants.
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Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
- Long read
Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
Catalogue
- Books
Mental Disorders Act, no. 38 of 1916 : regulations and procedure.
South Africa.Date: 1916- Archives and manuscripts
Company-wide Newsletters & Journals (internal)
Date: 1942 - 2000Reference: WF/M/PB/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Cheverton, Reginald Leslie
Cheverton, Reginald Leslie, 1901-1989.Date: c.1820s-1980sReference: WTI/RLC- Archives and manuscripts
Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 6
Date: January 1901 - July 1901Reference: WF/E/03/06 (copy, part 2)Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 6
Date: January 1901 - July 1901Reference: WF/E/03/06 (copy, part 1)Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd