Stories
- Photo story
Obesity and Britain’s boys
Six young men and six experiences of being overweight. Find out how these boys and their loved ones feel about this stigmatising issue.
- Article
The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
- Article
Do good mothers make good democracy?
To be psychologically fit for democracy, one distinguished paediatrician argued that you need a ‘good enough mother’ – and that we must acknowledge the bad side of our feelings.
- Long read
Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
Catalogue
- Books
Air Pollution and Human Health / National Society for Clean Air and Environmental Protection (Great Britain).
National Society for Clean Air and Environmental Protection (Great Britain)Date: 1992- Books
Vaccination : report of the Committee on (i) matters relating to the preparation, testing and standardisation of vaccine lymph; (ii) the practical methods which are available in the light of modern knowledge to diminish or remove any risks which may result from vaccination; (iii) the methods of vaccination which are most appropriate to give protection against risk of smallpox infection in epidemic and non-epidemic periods.
Great Britain. Committee on Vaccination.Date: 1928- Books
Information and the Health Protection Agency : this leaflet decribes how the Health Protection Agency uses information to protect your health and protect your identity.
Date: 2009- Books
Sexually transmitted infections and young people in the United Kingdom : 2008 report.
Health Protection Agency (Great Britain)Date: 2008- Books
- Online
Shooting up : infections among injecting drug users in the United Kingdom 2003 : an update, October 2004 / [report written & prepared by Vivian Hope, [and others]].
Date: 2004