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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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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.

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Thomas Sankara and the stomachs that made themselves heard

Thomas Sankara’s vision to transform farming and health in Burkina Faso turned to dust with his assassination. Perry Blankson highlights the considerable achievements of Sankara’s brief span in power.

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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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  • List of public policy issues relating to HIV; fifteenth of sixteen advertisement posters by the American Red Cross promoting education about AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1990.
  • 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.
  • Science in Parliament.
  • Meeting of the Social Research Association : The impact of publicity campaigns on attitudes and behaviour: AIDS as a case study.
  • Two horizontal red ribbons surround a globe of the world representing an advertisement for World Aids Day 1st December 1994 by Hounslow Council. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • Seven members of the French committee on vaccination rail at Tapp, a health officer who resists the new discovery. Coloured etching, c. 1800.
  • Seven members of the French committee on vaccination rail against Tapp, who resists the new discovery. Line engraving, c. 1800.
  • Images of health promotion: the National Health Promotion Forum in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Department of Health, ca. 2000.
  • Images of health promotion: the National Health Promotion Forum in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Department of Health, ca. 2000.
  • 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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