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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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Taking the piss

Council cuts have created public-toilet deserts across the UK, limiting journeys and days out for people whose medical conditions mean toilet access is essential. Campaigner Kevin Crowe highlights the issues.

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The significance of safe spaces as refuges from racism

Beer writer David Jesudason discusses the impact racism has had on his mental health, and the consolation offered by pubs that feel truly safe.

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NHS strikes and the decade of discontent

When the social unrest of the 1970s spread to the NHS, dissatisfied staff challenged the status quo for the first time in quarter of a century.

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  • Four scenes involving a gay man: seated with his mother, lying on a bed having a scan, sitting in consultation with a member of public behind a desk, in a chemist looking at an aerosol of shaving foam [?]; includes a message in the centre about how gay men have fewer rights; an advertisement for safe sex and AIDS prevention by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph by Ingo Taubhorn and Wolfgang Mudra.
  • Smallpox : Vaccination and re-vaccination are necessary for prevention : Infants should be vaccinated as soon as possible after birth : consult your doctor now : indigent persons will be vaccinated free of charge by the Public Health Department.
  • Smallpox : Vaccination and re-vaccination are necessary for prevention : Infants should be vaccinated as soon as possible after birth : consult your doctor now : indigent persons will be vaccinated free of charge by the Public Health Department.
  • A couple embracing, a woman spitting/coughing on the face of another, a woman kissing her baby; a woman on the telephone, men shaking hands and a man using a public toilet; an advertisement about ways in which AIDS and HIV are not contracted by Spitnac, Societal Projects Information Training Networking and Consultancy Services. Colour lithograph, 1997?.
  • Genetic modification
  • Focus on genetics
  • Focus on genetics
  • Human embryonic stem cells
  • Human embryonic stem cells
  • Human embryonic stem cells
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