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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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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Public health: a popular introduction to sanitary science : being a history of the prevalent and fatal diseases of the English population from the earliest times to the close of the war of the French revolution in 1815 / by William A. Guy.
Guy, William A. (William Augustus), 1810-1885.Date: 1874- Archives and manuscripts
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William Bartholomew - Theme on Punch - Pandemonium
Date: c.1875Reference: DGH1/7/3/1/23Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Books
A change for the better : how to survive - and thrive - during the menopause / Dr Hilary Jones.
Jones, Hilary (Hilary Robert)Date: 2000- Books
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Public health : a popular introduction to sanitary sicence. : Being a history of the prevalent and fatal diseases of the English population from the earliest times to the end of the eighteenth century / By William A. Guy, M.B. Cantab., F.R.S. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.
Guy, William A. (William Augustus), 1810-1885.Date: 1870- Books
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Domestic medicine : or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines. With an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners. To which are added, observations on the diet of the common people; recommending a method of living less expensive, and more conducive to health, than the present / by William Buchan.
Buchan William, 1729-1805.Date: 1800