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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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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.

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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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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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  • Guidelines for a joint labour-management Workplace Policy on AIDS with logo illustrations by the AIDS Unit Department of Health, Government of Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Guidelines for a joint Labour-management Workplace Policy on AIDS with logo illustrations by the AIDS Unit Department of Health, Government of Hong Kong (large version). Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Guidelines for a joint labour-management workplace policy on AIDS with logo illustrations by the AIDS Unit Department of Health, Government of Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Guidelines for a joint labour-management workplace policy on AIDS with logo illustrations by the AIDS Unit Department of Health, Government of Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • The face of Peter Barton Wilson, Governor of California (1991-1999) with the message "Pete Wilson wants to kill you"; protest poster about U.S. government policies on health care. Photocopy.
  • 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.
  • Delicious food carefully balanced / Compass Group plc.
  • Delicious food carefully balanced / Compass Group plc.
  • HIV/AIDS Lewisham you / Lewisham Council.
  • HIV/AIDS Lewisham you / Lewisham Council.
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