Stories
- Article
Chronic illness and the pressure to get well
When she was ill, Naomi Morris assumed she was on a straightforward journey from sickness to health. But what if our experiences of mental distress and ill health aren’t that neat?
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In search of the ‘nature cure’
Under the competing pressures of modern life, many of us succumb to mental ill health. Samantha Walton explores why so-called ‘nature cures’ don’t help, and how the living world can actually help us.
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Eugenics and the welfare state
Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.
Catalogue
- Audio
Effects of wealth and poverty on health.
Date: 2000- Books
- Online
The cost of inequality : putting a price on health / Les Mayhew.
Mayhew, LesDate: [2021]- Books
Stuffed and starved : from farm to fork, the hidden battle for the world food system / Raj Patel.
Patel, RajDate: [2013]- Archives and manuscripts
LEPRA (formerly The British Leprosy Relief Association, now LEPRA Health in Action)
LEPRA (The British Leprosy Relief Association)Date: 1924-1992Reference: WTI/LEP- Videos
- Online
The evolution of community medicine. Part 1, The rise of the public health movement.
Date: 1984