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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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The history of brainwashing

Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.

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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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Two health centres, two ideologies

Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.

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  • The community responds : AIDS / prepared for the 3rd National Conference - Local Government and Community Development by the Department of Community Services and Health.
  • The community responds : AIDS / prepared for the 3rd National Conference - Local Government and Community Development by the Department of Community Services and Health.
  • The community responds : AIDS / prepared for the 3rd National Conference - Local Government and Community Development by the Department of Community Services and Health.
  • The community responds : AIDS / prepared for the 3rd National Conference - Local Government and Community Development by the Department of Community Services and Health.
  • The community responds : AIDS / prepared for the 3rd National Conference - Local Government and Community Development by the Department of Community Services and Health.
  • The community responds : AIDS / prepared for the 3rd National Conference - Local Government and Community Development by the Department of Community Services and Health.
  • A list of 11 illustrated rules in Spanish and Basque on how to avoid AIDS issued by Basque Health Services. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Ways in which AIDS is not spread from shaking hands and hugging to mosquito and insect bites; an advertisement by the Directorate of Health Services in Manipur. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • The black silhouettes of men and women with arrows and the message that AIDS is a sexually transmitted disease so stick to one partner and use condoms; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Ministry of Health and Social Services, Seychelles. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Ways in which AIDS is spread including a couple representing unsafe sex, a person receiving infected blood from a donor, 3 people sharing contaminated needles and a pregnant woman infected with HIV lying in bed; an advertisement by the Directorate of Health Services in Manipur. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
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