healthmatters issue 2
Published Autumn 1989CONTENTS
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Letters
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Editorial
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Letters
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News
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Features
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Tobacco companies: a cancer in our midst
Britain must be forced to end its ‘gentleman’s agreement’ with the tobacco producers if a real attempt is to be made to reduce smoking, says Frank Chalmers
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The NHS: why defend the indefensible?
The call has gone out to ‘save the NHS’. But why, and for whom, asks Mark Ponnampalam
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Our doctors are all revolting
The fat cats are fighting back in defence of the NHS, says Alan Walters. But are they just protecting their own cream?
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Dump the environment — and we dump you
Women hold a powerful weapon in their purses, says Iris Webb. And as consumers they should wield their power in aid of the environment
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Shop-soiled pairs of genes
The use of new techniques in genetics is expanding. Jane Jefferson looks at what impact genetic screening could have on occupational health
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Health education — a lot of tripe
Dr James Le Fanu hits out at the ‘utopian’ view of health educationalists
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Bound, gagged and blindfolded
Britain’s health promotion movement has caused increasing embarrassment to the government. Now its sturdy independence is under threat, warn Jane West and Liz Jones
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A forum for collective action on health
Allison Watt explains the Bradford experience of forming a community health forum
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It’s not who you are but what you do
The Health Education Authority’s approach to HIV and AIDS may undo years of positive work, says Frankie Lynch
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Healthcare torn apart
South Africa likes to present itself as being in the forefront of medicine. But behind the facade lie two different worlds of care and disease
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Medicine in a spin
The proliferation of alternative therapies, in reality, implies a conservative co-existence with existing structures of society, not a challenge to them, says Ros Coward. Here we publish extracts from her new book The Whole Truth
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Column
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Reviews
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Confronting oppression
BURST OF LIGHT
Audré Lorde
Sheba, £4.95 -
Maternity and women at work
WOMEN, WORK AND MATERNITY: THE INSIDE STORY
O’Grady F and Wakefield H
Maternity Alliance, £2.50
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Column
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Where are the coughs and colds?
Rosa Hudson, healthmatters’ doctor at large, takes a look at the patients ‘unseen’ by the government’s white paper
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Feature
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Wrap the bacon round your neck…
Anniversaries have been all the rage this year. Frank Chalmers takes a humorous look at what healthcare can learn from the past
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Column
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Come clean and be counted
Patient consent is a valuable human right, and it should be extended to cover hospital closures, says David Seedhouse
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