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
The birth of Britain's National Health Service
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
- Article
A history of mindfulness
Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.
- Book extract
The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
Catalogue
- Books
Medical microbiology in Palestine and Israel, bacteria, diseases and public health 19th - 20th centuries : a bibliography / collected and edited by Zalman Greenberg.
Date: 2007- Books
Women's voices : an oral history of women's health in Northern Ireland (1900-90) / National Union of Public Employees (NUPE), Women's Committee, Northern Ireland ; Mary Ferris, Anna McGonigle, Patricia McKeown, Theresa Moriarty, Marie Mulholland.
Date: 1992- Archives and manuscripts
History of the PHLS
Date: 1939-1985Reference: PP/GSW/C/13-38Part of: Wilson, Sir Graham Selby- Books
- Online
A page in the natural history of pulmonary tuberculosis / by A. K. Chalmers.
Chalmers, Archibald Kerr.Date: 1913- Books
Nedwill : that 'peppery' Irish surgeon : New Zealand's outstanding public health pioneer / Geoffrey W. Rice.
Rice, GeoffreyDate: 2022