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.
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The law of periodicity for menstruation
Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.
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Two health centres, two ideologies
Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.
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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.
Catalogue
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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- Pictures
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A message about AIDS and HIV testing in Japanese black script bordered with vertical gold edges. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
Date: [1996?]Reference: 678544i- Pictures
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A naked figure with a leaf hair garland and transparent shawl pulls down the 's' of the word 'AIDS representing an advertisement for 'Action for AIDS' in Japan. Colour lithograph by Kan, ca. 1996.
Date: [1996?]Reference: 678547i- Pictures
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A personified red heart split in two appearing to be in discussion; an AIDS prevention advertisement with Japanese lettering. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
Date: [1996?]Reference: 678540i- Pictures
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A part happy, part sad face split in two by jagged wooden planks with Japanese lettering; a Japanese AIDS prevention advertisement. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
Date: [1996?]Reference: 678542i