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
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.
- Article
Born in the NHS
Despite underfunding, strikes and scandals, the first two decades of the 2000s has seen the British people’s love of and loyalty to the NHS soar.
- 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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Medical care in transition : reprints from the American Journal of Public Health / edited by the Division of Community Health Services, U.S. Public Health Service in cooperation with Medical Care Section, American Public Health Association.
Date: [1964]- Books
Tax-supported medical care for the needy : a statement of the Joint Committee on Medical Care of the American Public Health Association and the American Public Welfare Association.
Joint Committee on Medical Care of the American Public Health Association and the American Public Welfare Association.Date: [1952]- Books
A guide to medical care administration / prepared by the Program Area Committee on Medical Care Administration, American Public Health Association.
Date: 1965-- Books
Emergence of the Medical Care Section of the American Public Health Association, 1926-1948 : a chapter in the history of medical care in the United States / Arthur J. Viseltear.
Viseltear, Arthur J. (Arthur Jack), 1938-Date: [1972], ©1972- Books
Social work in hospitals : a study of social service departments in general and tuberculosis hospitals in the United States, 1954-55, by American Hospital Association, National Association of Social Workers, Medical Social Work Section, United States Public Health Service.
American Hospital Association.Date: [1957]