Stories
- Article
We need less ‘sickle cell warriors’ and more allies
Rejecting the epithet “warrior”, Cheryl Telfer describes the pervasive effect sickle cell disease has on her life, and calls for more people to donate blood to help sicklers.
- Article
Disability, education and prejudice
In the 1960s and 1970s, thalidomide survivors had to fight for a proper education. If they weren’t brought up in institutions, they were often viewed as objects of curiosity, encountering verbal and sometimes physical abuse, both at school and in the world beyond.
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Eugenics and the welfare state
Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.
- Photo story
Obesity and Britain’s boys
Six young men and six experiences of being overweight. Find out how these boys and their loved ones feel about this stigmatising issue.
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School children visiting a segregated corrugated toilet and washing their hands: hygiene in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
Date: [2000?]Reference: 756161i- Archives and manuscripts
Department of Health - Smoking Among Secondary School Children
Health Education CouncilDate: 1988-1997Reference: SA/HEC/B/24/129Part of: Health Education Council and Health Education Authority- Archives and manuscripts
Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene
Date: 1892-1997Reference: SA/RSP/BPart of: Royal Society for Public Health and predecessors- Books
Studies on hookworm, Ascaris and Trichuris in Panama : embodying the results of the researches of an expedition to the republic of Panama, May to September, 1926 / by W.W. Cort [and others].
Date: 1929- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence with Dr J M Mackintosh, Dean, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Date: May 1950 - Jun 1950Reference: SA/PHC/D.1/7/16Part of: Pioneer Health Centre Peckham, with papers of George Scott Williamson MD (1884-1953) and Innes Hope Pearse (1889-1978)