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
The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
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When a private pee is a public disgrace
The free pee is getting rarer. And the lack of suitably equipped disabled toilets is condemning people to lives cloistered away in their own homes. Discover how toilet access for all is part of an equal society.
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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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
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New York Public Library "Honest Jim" Exhibit (November 2003)
Date: 2003Reference: JDW/2/8/1/353Part of: James D. Watson Collection- Books
The New York Public Library science desk reference / Patricia Barnes-Svarney.
Date: [1995], ©1995- Books
Tobacco : a catalogue of the books, manuscripts, and engravings acquired since 1942 in the Arents Tobacco Collection at the New York Public Library, from 1507 to the present / compiled by Sarah Augusta Dickson.
New York Public Library.Date: 1958-1968- Books
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Report on vital statistics and health reports of New York City / by the Public Health, Hospital and Budget Committee of the New York Academy of Medicine.
New York Academy of Medicine. Public Health, Hospital, and Budget Committee.Date: 1912- Books
- Online
A report upon the health conditions in the public schools of New York City / by the Committee on Public Health Hospitals, and Budget of the New York Academy of Medicine.
New York Academy of Medicine. Public Health, Hospital, and Budget Committee.Date: 1912