Stories
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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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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.
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Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
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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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After the cure : managing AIDS and other public health crises / Martin A. Levin and Mary Bryna Sanger.
Levin, Martin A.Date: [2000], ©2000- Archives and manuscripts
General Correspondence Files - 1
Date: 1986-1987Reference: SA/ASG/C/1Part of: AIDS and Social Policy Group- Archives and manuscripts
Slim in Uganda
Date: 1984 - 1985Reference: PP/BAY/B/2/1Part of: Anne Bayley: Archives- Pictures
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Five images of busy street scenes in Japan representing an advertisement for the Stop AIDS campaign. Colour lithograph, ca. 1994.
Date: 1994Reference: 678553i- Pictures
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A graph across a map of the world showing the growing pandemic and stalling response to the AIDS crisis between the years 1981 and 1993; advertisement by The Global AIDS Policy Coalition. Colour lithograph, 1993.
Date: 1993Reference: 668720i