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.
- Article
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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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean
Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.
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Thomas Sankara and the stomachs that made themselves heard
Thomas Sankara’s vision to transform farming and health in Burkina Faso turned to dust with his assassination. Perry Blankson highlights the considerable achievements of Sankara’s brief span in power.
Catalogue
- Books
Miasmas and disease : public health and the environment in the pre-industrial age / Carlo M. Cipolla ; translated by Elizabeth Potter.
Cipolla, Carlo M.Date: 1992- Books
- Online
Patients and practitioners : lay perceptions of medicine in pre-industrial society / edited by Roy Porter.
Date: [1985], ©1985- Books
Patients and practitioners : lay perceptions of medicine in pre-industrial society / edited by Roy Porter.
Date: 1985