Stories
- Article
The ‘undesirable epileptic’
Abused in her marriage for being 'a sick woman', Aparna Nair looked to history to make sense of the response to her epilepsy. She discovered how centuries of fear and discrimination were often endorsed by science and legislation.
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Intertwined with air
Siwakorn Odochao details his people’s way of perceiving trees and humans as intimately connected, and draws on the air as the element that weaves between them. Through the co-dependency of humans and trees to prepare the air for each other, he elaborates on the relationship between air, health and environment.
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My illness made me an activist, but now I’m exhausted
Emily Bashforth’s illness made her an advocate but now she’s battling burnout. She argues why we all need to be mental health activists, not just those with lived experience.
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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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
'Public Health (legislation)'
Date: 1872-1896Reference: SA/SMO/K.16-20Part of: Society of Medical Officers of Health- Archives and manuscripts
Printed page of amendments proposed by the Association of Medical Officers of Health in the Public Health Bill
Date: 1872Reference: SA/SMO/K.16Part of: Society of Medical Officers of Health- Archives and manuscripts
Report on poliomyeletis vaccine produced by the Cutter Laboratories. US Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare Public Health Service. Duplicated
Date: 25 August 1955Reference: SA/RDS/K/6/2Part of: Research Defence Society- Books
- Online
Occupational health and safety legislation : a compilation of State laws and regulations [by] Victoria M. Trasko.
United States. Occupational Health Program.Date: [1954]- Books
Fundamental principles of health legislation of the U.S.S.R. / Soviet-Eastern European Studies Project, John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences.
Date: 1971