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
How architecture builds a profession of stress
Architects might produce buildings that enhance our health, but at what cost? Kristin Hohenadel explores architecture’s pressurised and stressful culture.
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The shocking ‘treatment’ to make lesbians straight
Being a lesbian has never been a crime in the UK, but 50 years ago, some psychologists experimented with treatments to try to ‘cure’ women of their orientation. Find out what this involved.
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The indelible harm caused by conversion therapy
With first-hand evidence from two powerful testimonies, neurologist Jules Montague explores the destructive history of conversion therapy, a punitive treatment designed to ‘cure’ people of homosexuality.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Health Surveys
Date: Mid 20th centuryReference: PP/MAC/F.3/2Part of: Macdonald, Professor George- Archives and manuscripts
HEA Health and Lifestyles National Surveys Guide - new surveys added
Health Education CouncilDate: 1998Reference: SA/HEC/B/26/22Part of: Health Education Council and Health Education Authority- Archives and manuscripts
Surveys by other bodies
Date: 1972-1990Reference: SA/ASH/S/2Part of: Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)- Archives and manuscripts
Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, surveys of smoking trends
Date: 1972-1990Reference: SA/ASH/S/2/1Part of: Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)- Archives and manuscripts
Tracking Surveys - MWM
Date: 1989Reference: SA/HEC/A/43/5/21/4Part of: Health Education Council and Health Education Authority