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
The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
- 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
The post-war adverts that tried to cure lonely women
Isolated housewives, lonely female office workers: while the 1950s saw the birth of a general concern about them, manufacturers also spotted an opportunity. Find out how advertising promised that products could salve solitude.
Catalogue
- Books
Public health : proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on the Comparative History of Medicine - East and West, October 26th-November 1st, 1980, Susono-shi, Shizuoka, Japan / edited by Teizo Ogawa.
Date: [1981], ©1981- Books
- Online
[Public health memoranda].
Great Britain. Local Government Board.Date: 1887-1901- Books
National Institutes of Health international awards for biomedical research and research training, fiscal year 1973 / prepared by International Cooperation and Geographic Studies Branch, [John E.] Fogarty International Center.
Date: [1974]- Archives and manuscripts
Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene
Date: 1892-1997Reference: SA/RSP/BPart of: Royal Society for Public Health and predecessors- Videos
The future of public health / Ilona Kickbusch.
Date: 1997