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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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Between sickness and health

In early 2020, the subject Will Rees was studying – imaginary illnesses – took on a new relevance as everyone anxiously scanned themselves for Covid symptoms each day. But this kind of self-scrutiny is nothing new, as he reveals.

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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.

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The birth of Britain's National Health Service

Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.

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  • People from different ethnic origins in Canada; advertising the Canadian Public Health Association AIDS Education and Awareness Program for Punjabi speakers. Colour lithograph.
  • People from different ethnic origins in Canada; advertising the Canadian Public Health Association AIDS Education and Awareness Program for Urdu speakers. Colour lithograph.
  • People from different ethnic origins in Canada; advertising the Canadian Public Health Association AIDS Education and Awareness Program for Creole speakers. Colour lithograph.
  • People from different ethnic origins in Canada; advertising the Canadian Public Health Association AIDS Education and Awareness Program for Spanish speakers. Colour lithograph.
  • People from different ethnic origins in Canada; advertising the Canadian Public Health Association AIDS Education and Awareness Program for Farsi (Persian) speakers. Colour lithograph.
  • People from different ethnic origins in Canada; advertising the Canadian Public Health Association AIDS Education and Awareness Program for Laotian speakers. Colour lithograph.
  • People from different ethnic origins in Canada; advertising the Canadian Public Health Association AIDS Education and Awareness Program for Arabic speakers. Colour lithograph.
  • People from different ethnic origins in Canada; advertising the Canadian Public Health Association AIDS Education and Awareness Program for Somali speakers. Colour lithograph.
  • People from different ethnic origins in Canada; advertising the Canadian Public Health Association AIDS Education and Awareness Program for Chinese speakers. Colour lithograph.
  • People from different ethnic origins in Canada; advertising the Canadian Public Health Association AIDS Education and Awareness Program for Amharic speakers. Colour lithograph.
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