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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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Are you still nursing?

Julia Martins might get the side-eye for breastfeeding a three-year-old in the UK but, as she explains, examples from history, as well as the cultural norms of Brazil, where she grew up, are firmly on the side of extended nursing.

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The work of wet-nursing

Many of us know that in the past, babies were sometimes nourished by wet-nurses. But, perhaps surprisingly, the practice continues today – and the milk recipients are not only babies.

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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.

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  • An old wet nurse; symbolising France as nanny-state and public health provider. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, 1901.
  • A nurse uses a stethoscope on a child with a thermometer in his mouth: preventing malaria in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, ca. 2008.
  • A nurse with one finger raised and the message: 'Wer's im Urlaub ohne treibt, ist im Kopf nicht ganz gescheit' [Whoever goes on holiday unprepared is not clever in the head]; an advertisement for safe sex by the Authority of Labor, Health and Social Affairs, Hamburg and the Office of Public Health - Health Promotion / AIDS. Colour lithograph by Transglobe Black Box and DMB&B.
  • A used needle poised above a safety box; promoting safe work practices in Ethiopian health organisations. Colour lithograph by Y. G. Mariam, ca. 2000.
  • West Midlands Tuberculosis sanatoria and public information
  • West Midlands Tuberculosis sanatoria and public information
  • West Midlands Tuberculosis sanatoria and public information
  • West Midlands Tuberculosis sanatoria and public information
  • West Midlands Tuberculosis sanatoria and public information
  • West Midlands Tuberculosis sanatoria and public information
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