Stories
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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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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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Designing death in the virtual city
Danger and death are fun when they’re virtual – and when they incorporate realistic elements. Now the tables are turned, as urban planners learn from game environments.
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Two health centres, two ideologies
Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.
Catalogue
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Reports on cities and towns. I, Glasgow.
Strang, Dr.Date: 1855- Books
Reports on cities and towns. III, Bedford / Herbert Barker.
Barker, Herbert.Date: 1855- Books
Reports on cities and towns. II, Swansea / W.H. Michael.
Michael, W. H. (William Henry), 1821-1892Date: 1855- Books
A sewer is the best medicine : through plague, wars, famine and flood : Sir Robert Rawlinson and the nineteenth century public health revolution / J. Andrew Charles.
Charles, J. AndrewDate: 2022- Books
Urban bodies : communal health in late medieval english towns and cities / Carole Rawcliffe.
Rawcliffe, Carole, 1946-Date: 2013