Stories
- Article
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.
- Photo story
Obesity and Britain’s boys
Six young men and six experiences of being overweight. Find out how these boys and their loved ones feel about this stigmatising issue.
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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.
- Photo story
The last glass-eye maker in Britain
Meet Jost Haas – the UK’s last artificial-eye maker working exclusively with glass.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Whitley Council for the Health Service (Great Britain)
Date: 1950Reference: SA/BMA/F.162Part of: British Medical Association- Books
Interim report / Local Government and Public Health Consolidation Committee.
Great Britain. Local Government and Public Health Consolidation Committee.Date: 1933- Books
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Public health in England : the report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Future Development of the Public Health Function.
Great Britain. Committee of Inquiry into the Future Development of the Public Health Function.Date: 1988- Archives and manuscripts
Peterson, O L, (Staff Member, Division of Medicine and Public Health, the Rockefeller Foundation.), A Study of the National Health Service of Great Britain
Date: 1951Reference: PP/AWD/H/12/5/1Part of: Daley, Sir (William) Allen (1887-1969)- Archives and manuscripts
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Chapter 45. M. M. Glatt, 'The Alcoholic Problem in Great Britain - Recent Developments'
Date: 1968Reference: MS.7913/47Part of: The Expanding Field of Mental Health in England and Wales, 50 years of progress, 1918-1968