Stories
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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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Homes for the hives of industry
By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.
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The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
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Two health centres, two ideologies
Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.
Catalogue
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Filthy cities. Part 3, Industrial New York.
Date: 2011- Archives and manuscripts
Medical Officers of Health Papers
Medical Officers of Health (United Kingdom)Date: 1893-1941Reference: GC/MOH- Books
The health of populations : general theories and particular realities / Stephen J. Kunitz.
Kunitz, Stephen J.Date: 2007
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Health, wealth and population in the early days of the industrial revolution / by M.C. Buer.
Buer, M. C. (Mabel Craven), 1881-1942.Date: 1926- Books
Therapeutic revolutions : pharmaceuticals and social change in the twentieth century / editors, Jeremy A. Greene, Flurin Condrau, and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins.
Date: [2016]