Stories
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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.
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The stranger who started an epidemic
New Orleans, 1853. James McGuigan arrives in the port city and succumbs to yellow fever.
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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.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
Catalogue
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New hospitals needed in greater New York : Recommendations by the Standing Committee on Hospitals of the State Charities Aid Association with a report on present conditions and future needs.
State Charities Aid Association (N.Y.). Committee on Hospitals.Date: [1908]- Books
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A seven years' campaign : review of manoeuvers and statement of results of the tuberculosis movement in New York State outside of New York City / by Homer Folks.
Folks, Homer, 1867-1963.Date: [1914]- Books
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Conference of the local committees on the prevention of tuberculosis of the State charities aid association, to be held Friday and Saturday, March 18th and 19th, 1910 at Albany, N.Y.
State Charities Aid Association (N.Y.)Date: [1910?]- Books
Adult adjustment of foster children of alcoholic and psychotic parentage and the influence of the foster home / Anne Roe, PH.D, Barbara Burks, PH. D ; with a chapter on sibling adjustment in collaboration with Bela Mittelmann, M.D.
Roe, Anne, 1904-1991.Date: 1945- Books
Charity and the London hospitals, 1850-1898 / Keir Waddington.
Waddington, Keir, 1970-Date: 2000