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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Public health campaigns and the ‘threat’ of disability
By continuing to represent disability as the feared outcome of disease, public health campaigns help to perpetuate prejudice against disabled people.
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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK
Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.
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Refugee health on a pound a day
Two refugees living a hand-to-mouth existence in the UK explain how trauma has affected their health, and how a little kindness is bringing them hope.
Catalogue
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Health, hygiene and longevity in medieval and Renaissance Europe / Richard Palmer.
Palmer, Richard (Richard John) (Librarian and historian)Date: 1991- Archives and manuscripts
Comments on proposed amendments to the Milk and Dairies (General) Regulations 1959 - bottle hygiene
Date: Apr-Aug 1972Reference: SA/SMO/L.114Part of: Society of Medical Officers of Health
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[Sanitary inquiry : - England. : Local reports on the sanitary condition of the labouring population of England, in consequence of an inquiry directed to be made by the Poor Law Commissioners. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842].
Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners.Date: [1842]- Books
Studies on hookworm, Ascaris and Trichuris in Panama : embodying the results of the researches of an expedition to the republic of Panama, May to September, 1926 / by W.W. Cort [and others].
Date: 1929- Pictures
The risks of infection from poor domestic hygiene in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph for Health Education Centre, 1997.
Date: 1997Reference: 752671i