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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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Self-obsessing in the age of selfies

The tiny, joyful spark of a social media ‘like’ can lead to a damaging obsession. Find out how far people will go when their phone addiction gets the upper hand.

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NHS strikes and the decade of discontent

When the social unrest of the 1970s spread to the NHS, dissatisfied staff challenged the status quo for the first time in quarter of a century.

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The cook who became a pariah

New York, 1907. Mary Mallon spreads infection, unaware that her name will one day become synonymous with typhoid.

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  • A list of facts about AIDS by the Illinois Department of Public Health. Colour lithograph.
  • Reasons for not rushing into sex the first time; advertisement by the Michigan Department of Public Health. Lithograph.
  • [Leaflet explaining how the Department of Health's herbal medicine licensing system safeguards the public].
  • [Leaflet explaining how the Department of Health's herbal medicine licensing system safeguards the public].
  • [Leaflet explaining how the Department of Health's herbal medicine licensing system safeguards the public].
  • [Leaflet explaining how the Department of Health's herbal medicine licensing system safeguards the public].
  • [Leaflet explaining how the Department of Health's herbal medicine licensing system safeguards the public].
  • [Leaflet explaining how the Department of Health's herbal medicine licensing system safeguards the public].
  • Cholera : caused by food infected by the excretions of a previous case : how to prevent ... / Shanghai Municipal Council Public Health Department.
  • Cartoons illustrating ways in which you can't get AIDS including eating at restaurants and using toilets in public places; advertisement for the Minnesota AIDS Project by the Illinois Department of Public Health. Colour lithograph by Max.
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