Stories
- Article
Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
- Article
Thomas Sankara and the stomachs that made themselves heard
Thomas Sankara’s vision to transform farming and health in Burkina Faso turned to dust with his assassination. Perry Blankson highlights the considerable achievements of Sankara’s brief span in power.
- Article
The indelible harm caused by conversion therapy
With first-hand evidence from two powerful testimonies, neurologist Jules Montague explores the destructive history of conversion therapy, a punitive treatment designed to ‘cure’ people of homosexuality.
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Homes for the hives of industry
By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
General Correspondence
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2009 - 2012Reference: GC/253/A/43/1Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Books
Health policies in developing countries / edited by Clive Wood and Yvonne Rue.
Date: [1980]- Books
Access : how do good health technologies get to poor people in poor countries? / Laura J. Frost & Michael R. Reich.
Frost, Laura J., 1969-Date: [2008]- Archives and manuscripts
Developing Countries
Date: 1989Reference: SA/ASH/T/5/69/6Part of: Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)- Books
A picture of health? : a review and annotated bibliography of the health of young people in developing countries.
Date: [1995], ©1995