Stories
- Article
Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
- Book extract
Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations
Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.
- Article
Acid and the sexual psychonauts
How LSD fuelled one woman’s journey of sexual self-discovery in the late 1950s.
- Long read
Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
Catalogue
- Books
"Save the babies" : American public health reform and the prevention of infant mortality, 1850-1929 / Richard A. Meckel.
Meckel, R. A. (Richard Alan)Date: [1990], ©1990- Books
The maternal physician : a treatise on the nurture and management of infants, from the birth until two years old, being the result of sixteen years' experience in the nursery / illustrated by extracts from the most approved medical authors, by an American matron ; introduction by Charles E. Rosenberg.
Date: 1972- Books
The child protection movement in England, 1860-1890 / by George Kinkel Behlmer.
Behlmer, George K.Date: 1977- Books
Der Tod im Kindesalter : eine medizin-historische Studie auf der Grundlage von Epitaphen der Anthologia Graeca / [Renate Götze].
Götze, Renate.Date: 1974- Books
An analysis of the impact of Nigeria's health programs on child mortality between 1980 and 1995 / by Julius O. Akeredolu.
Akeredolu, Julius O.Date: 2001