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Selling sex and sacrificing safety

Sex workers who report crimes against them can face a “what do you expect?” attitude. But one organisation is working to protect vulnerable people in the sex industry.

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Telling Scotland about AIDS

Find out how activists and organisations working on AIDS information campaigns in 1980s Scotland used cartoons, kilts, and candid language to convey their message.

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Medics and the bomb

Would a nuclear attack on the UK overwhelm the NHS? At the height of the Cold War, despite government optimism, medics predicted doom.

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Booze and bad behaviour

Our love of alcohol is like a party that’s lasted nine centuries. But there are signs that the demon drink is losing its appeal.

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  • The medical and surgical reporter.
  • Page from report by Krohne and Sesemann
  • [Reports ... for the years 1779 and 1780].
  • Clinical lectures and reports by the medical and surgical staff.
  • Report on the physical welfare of mothers and children.
  • Report on the physical welfare of mothers and children.
  • Report on the physical welfare of mothers and children.
  • Medical and surgical report of the Boston City Hospital.
  • Cope and Victor Horsley, Reports on the outbreak of Rabies
  • Annual report of the Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales.
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