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
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.
- Article
How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory
A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.
- Article
Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
Catalogue
- Ephemera
Unwelcome guests / Scottish Council for Health Education.
Date: 1963- Ephemera
Internal hoarding / Scottish Council for Health Education.
Date: 1946- Ephemera
Advice to dyspeptics / Scottish Council for Health Education.
Date: 1947- Ephemera
Care of the feet / Scottish Council for Health Education.
Date: 1960- Books
War on disease / Scottish Council for Health Education in association with the Central Council for Health Education.
Date: 1957