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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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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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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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  • The yellow and green silhouettes of abstract figures with the statement 'Equal rights shared responsibility' representing an advertisement for World AIDS Day on 1st December 1995 by the Folkhälsoinstitutet [National Public Health Institute]. Colour lithograph, 1995.
  • Three numbered diagrams on how to sterilise needles with the message to protect yourself and others against HIV; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Folkehelsa Statens Institutt for Folkehelse (Norwegian Institute of Public Health). Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Two arms entwined one painted silver, the other gold with the words '[love without fear] in Swedish, Arabic, Chinese and English; one of a series of AIDS prevention advertisements by the Folkhälsoinstitutet [National Public Health Institute]. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A world map with figures and statistics highlighting the numbers of those with the HIV virus; with the message that over 50% of heterosexual HIV transmission in Norway occurs abroad; an advertisement by The Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Colour lithograph by , ca. 1995.
  • The index fingers of two hands touch, one painted silver, the other gold with the words 'love without fear' in Finnish, and partly showing in Chinese and Arabic; an advertisement for a free handbook about HIV and AIDS by the Folkhälsoinstitutet [National Public Health Institute]. Colour lithograph by Garbergs, ca. 1995.
  • A man sits alone huddled on some steps representing a man with AIDS who is marginalised from society; advertisement for the National drug and AIDS programme by the Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo [Miinistry of Public Health]. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A man sits alone huddled on some steps representing a man with AIDS who is marginalised from society; advertisement for the National drug and AIDS programme by the Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo [Miinistry of Public Health]. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A blue silhouette figure stands with one arm resting on a cave wall, the other behind his head as he looks out at a sunset across the sea in the form of a blue target with a yellow surround; an advertisement for the 1st meeting about Andalucian AIDS and Society on 2 December 1989, a collaboration by the Civic Committee of Anti-AIDS Granada and the Andalusian School of Public Health. Colour lithograph. 1989.
  • A dictionary of hygiène and public health : comprising sanitary chemistry, engineering, and legislation, the dietetic value of foods, and the detection of adulterations, on the plan of the "Dictionnaire d'hygiène publique" of Professor Ambroise Tardieu / by Alexander Wynter Blyth.
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