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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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Tracing the toxic story of tear gas

Investigating tear gas – from factory to Black Lives Matter protest – Imani Jacqueline Brown uncovers a toxic legacy where pollution, violence and racism are intimately entwined.

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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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  • Condoman, a cartoon figure, holds a packet of condoms on a beach; advertising safe sex among indigenous Australians. Colour lithograph by the Department of Health, Housing and Community Services, Australia, and the Aboriginal Health Workers of Australia (Queensland).
  • Healthy eating / Department of Health.
  • Healthy eating / Department of Health.
  • A figure engulfed by a condom with another figure walking away to the right disconsolately; advertisement for safe sex by the Commonwealth Department of Health, Housing, Local Government and Community Services, Australia. Colour lithograph.
  • The face of a child in the palm of a dotted hand with a list of equipment and procedures for cleaning up blood spills; an advertisement by the AIDS STD Unit, Health Department Victoria (Australia). Colour lithograph, October 1990.
  • AIDS / City of Edinburgh District Council, Environmental Health Department.
  • AIDS / City of Edinburgh District Council, Environmental Health Department.
  • Images of health promotion: the National Health Promotion Forum in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Department of Health, ca. 2000.
  • Images of health promotion: the National Health Promotion Forum in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Department of Health, ca. 2000.
  • James Swan, a boxer wearing a red Adidas vest and 'Ring Pro Australia' gloves and helmet with an inset photograph of him holding up a condom; an advertisement for information about STDs by the Northern Territory Department of Health and Community Services. Colour lithograph, 1992.
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