Stories
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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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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.
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NHS strikes and the decade of discontent
When the social unrest of the 1970s spread to the NHS, dissatisfied staff challenged the status quo for the first time in quarter of a century.
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A history of mindfulness
Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.
Catalogue
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Public health : proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on the Comparative History of Medicine - East and West, October 26th-November 1st, 1980, Susono-shi, Shizuoka, Japan / edited by Teizo Ogawa.
Date: [1981], ©1981- 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- Archives and manuscripts
History of the PHLS
Date: 1939-1985Reference: PP/GSW/C/13-38Part of: Wilson, Sir Graham Selby- Books
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Vaccinating Britain : mass vaccination and the public since the Second World War / Gareth Millward.
Millward, GarethDate: 2019- Books
Nedwill : that 'peppery' Irish surgeon : New Zealand's outstanding public health pioneer / Geoffrey W. Rice.
Rice, GeoffreyDate: 2022