Stories
- Article
When self-deception becomes global hoax
Being deceived isn’t always a case of believing someone else’s lie. Experiments have shown that many of us can be manipulated into accepting our own fictions as true.
- 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
Between sickness and health
In early 2020, the subject Will Rees was studying – imaginary illnesses – took on a new relevance as everyone anxiously scanned themselves for Covid symptoms each day. But this kind of self-scrutiny is nothing new, as he reveals.
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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
- Ephemera
- Online
G20 leaders : to end AIDS, treat all people! : 15 million by 2015 / HealthGAP.org.
Date: [2011?]- Books
Blue space, health and wellbeing : hydrophilia unbounded / edited by Ronan Foley, Robin Kearns, Thomas Kistemann, and Ben Wheeler.
Date: 2019- Archives and manuscripts
Journals of a Pandemic: a project recording life in COVID-19
Journals of a PandemicDate: 2020Reference: SA/PAN- Archives and manuscripts
Medact
Medical Campaign against Nuclear Weapons (f. 1980)Date: c.1955-c.2008Reference: SA/MED- Archives and manuscripts
Reproductive Health Matters
Reproductive Health MattersDate: 1991-2016Reference: SA/RHM