Stories
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- 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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- Long read
Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
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- Article
Befriending heavy breathers
Read the fascinating story behind the rare manual that helped volunteers on one of Britain’s first free telephone helplines to deal with masturbating callers.
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- Book extract
Inside the Cold War mind
Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.
Catalogue
- Books
The Mental Health Foundation's someone to talk to directory 1985 : a directory of self-help and community support agencies - national and local - in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland / researched and compiled by Penny Webb ; managing editor: Dick Thompson, Penny Webb, Matthew Pudney.
Webb, Penny.Date: 1985- Ephemera
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National AIDS helplines : phone free - in confidence ... / issued by the United Kingdom Health Departments.
Date: [approximately 1992?]- Ephemera
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Questions about AIDS : call us at National AIDS Helplines : take a free card : phone free - in confidence / prepared by the Department of Health and the Central Office of Information.
Date: [approximately 1992?]- Ephemera
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The War Widows Association of Great Britain [sticker].
War Widows Association of Great Britain.Date: [1992?]- Ephemera
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Dear Secretary of State : AIDS - back-up and support services to publicity campaign / Valerie Stead, Assistant Director, Thames Polytechnic.
Stead, ValerieDate: 1987