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
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.
- 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.
- In pictures
Superstition, contagion and medical rumour
The great generator of confusion, rumours have not spared human health from their chaos. Find out how whispers, gossip and rumours have caused medical mishaps through the ages.
![Medical extracts: on the nature of health, with practical observations: and the laws of the nervous and fibrous systems / By a friend to improvements [R.J. Thornton].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0046417/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Medical extracts: on the nature of health, with practical observations: and the laws of the nervous and fibrous systems / By a friend to improvements [R.J. Thornton].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0046416/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
The Faculty of Community Health of the Society of Public Health
Date: 1988-1998Reference: SA/SMO/QPart of: Society of Medical Officers of Health- Books
Future organisation of medical practice in Europe : report / prepared by P. Backer, N.H. Fisek, J.H. Grant ; presented by E. Aujaleu.
Backer, P.Date: 1973- Books
The history and practice of school inspection / by C.J. Thomas.
Thomas, C. J.Date: 1908- Books
The theory and practice of public health / edited by W. Hobson.
Date: 1969- Books
The theory and practice of public health / edited by W. Hobson.
Date: 1965
