Stories
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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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Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
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Cowpox, Covid-19 and Jenner’s vaccination legacy
The well-known story of vaccination pioneer Edward Jenner has at its heart his drive to make vaccines free of charge and available to all. Now his principles extend to the global campaign for a people’s patent-free vaccine for Covid-19.
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Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug
Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.
Catalogue
- Ephemera
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WAD '93 : events 1 : World AIDS Day events October 1993 / Health Education Authority, National AIDS Trust, World AIDS Day.
Date: 1993- Ephemera
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World AIDS Day is 1st December : guide to events 2000 : make adifference. Go to www.worldAIDSday.org / c NAT (National AIDS Trust).
Date: 2000- Pictures
The roles of the state in the maintenance of health in Great Britain, 1930s-1990s. Prints, photographs, documents.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 804686i- Ephemera
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Recommended standards for NHS HIV services : endorsed by Department of Health, British HIV Association, National Association of NHS Providers of AIDS Care and Treatment for Medical Foundation & Sexual Health, a charity supported by the British Medical Association.
Date: 2003- Videos
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AIDS Britain 1987.
Date: 1987