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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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A history of twins in science

For thousands of years, twins have been a source of fascination in mythology, religion and the arts. Since the 19th century, they have also been the subject of scientific study and experimentation.

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NHS Blue: the colour of universal healthcare

The 1980s and 1990s saw ideas from the world of business infiltrating the NHS, including the introduction of an internal market, followed by a corporate branding exercise.

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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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  • A graph across a map of the world showing the growing pandemic and stalling response to the AIDS crisis between the years 1981 and 1993; advertisement by The Global AIDS Policy Coalition. Colour lithograph, 1993.
  • Sequah on Clapham Common. Oil painting, ca. 1890.
  • Sequah on Clapham Common. Oil painting, ca. 1890.
  • Sequah on Clapham Common. Oil painting, ca. 1890.
  • Sequah on Clapham Common. Oil painting, ca. 1890.
  • Sequah on Clapham Common. Oil painting, ca. 1890.
  • Sequah on Clapham Common. Oil painting, ca. 1890.
  • Sequah on Clapham Common. Oil painting, ca. 1890.
  • Sequah on Clapham Common. Oil painting, ca. 1890.
  • The church of San Lorenzo, Florence, with funerary decorations to mark the death of King Henri IV of France. Etching, 1610.
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