Stories
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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
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Practical guide to sanitary legislation containing a synposis of the acts relating to public health and local government : including the public health acts - local government acts 1888-1894 - highways, locomotives, tramways, railways, water, gas, electric lighting and telegraph acts - byelaws as to new streets and buildings, etc., etc. ; specially arranged for the use of officers and members of local authorities, architects, students, etc / by John A. Angell and John G. Morley.
Angell, John A. (John Alexander)Date: 1895- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence - London Boroughs
Date: c.1984-1990Reference: PP/TLA/A/1/24Part of: Archive of Professor Tim Lang- Books
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Sanitary laws of Scotland and principles of public health : being a manual for county and burgh councillors, legal officials, medical officers of health, sanitary inspectors and all interested in public health / by W.J. Brock.
Date: 1905- Books
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The law relating to public health : being the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1867, and Amending Acts of 1871, 1875, and 1882 : annotated with special reference to the changes introduced by the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889, with numerous decisions, Scotch and English, a copious index, and appendices containing practical forms and relative statutes / by J. Eaton Dykes and Dudley Stuart.
Date: 1890- Books
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Epitome of the laws affecting health now in force in this country / compiled for the use of the general public by J.V. Vesey Fitzgerald.
Fitzgerald J. V. Vesey (John Vesey Vesey), 1848-Date: 1885