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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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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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Paris Morgue and a public spectacle of death

Known as the “only free theatre in Paris”, La Morgue was a popular place for the public to view cadavers on display.

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Between sickness and health

In early 2020, the subject Will Rees was studying – imaginary illnesses – took on a new relevance as everyone anxiously scanned themselves for Covid symptoms each day. But this kind of self-scrutiny is nothing new, as he reveals.

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  • Miss Carrie Moore and the Sandow girls performing as "The Dairymaids". Photographic postcard, 1906.
  • Miss Carrie Moore and the Sandow girls performing as "The Dairymaids". Photographic postcard, 1906.
  • A horse-drawn hearse pulls away from a doctor's; representing the dire state of the medical establishment according to James Morison, pill-vendor and self-styled 'Hygeian'. Lithograph, c. 1848.
  • Jo Spence in a hospice bed.
  • Beate, Bianca and Babette, three male models dressed in women's clothes with a glamour checklist that includes safe sex precautions; advertisement for Gay Men's Outreach and Education by the Whitman-Walker Clinic Inc., Washington by the DC Department of Human Services. Colour lithograph.
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