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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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Getting around the rules of sex education

What should we and shouldn’t we teach our teens about sex, inside and outside of the classroom?

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Beating the bodysnatchers

When a rise in grave robbing called for strong measures, mortsafes became the unassailable solution. Allison C. Meier explores.

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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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  • Boer War: men lying in a military hospital housed in a public school at Mafeteng, South Africa. Halftone, c.1900, after M. Maseru.
  • A group of young men and women sit around two portable radios: promoting a health radio programme for teenagers in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, ca. 2000.
  • A group of young men and women sit around two portable radios: promoting a health radio programme for teenagers in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, ca. 2000.
  • A blue silhouette figure stands with one arm resting on a cave wall, the other behind his head as he looks out at a sunset across the sea in the form of a blue target with a yellow surround; an advertisement for the 1st meeting about Andalucian AIDS and Society on 2 December 1989, a collaboration by the Civic Committee of Anti-AIDS Granada and the Andalusian School of Public Health. Colour lithograph. 1989.
  • The Raw Food School : learn about raw food and its life changing benefits / Raw Food School.
  • The Raw Food School : learn about raw food and its life changing benefits / Raw Food School.
  • The Raw Food School : learn about raw food and its life changing benefits / Raw Food School.
  • The Raw Food School : learn about raw food and its life changing benefits / Raw Food School.
  • Home and Colonial Training College, London. Etching.
  • Mansel Lacy National Schools, Herefordshire, England: with a floor plan. Wood engraving by Laing after Nicholson.
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