healthmatters issue 3
Published Spring 1990CONTENTS
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Editorial
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Letters
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News
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Features
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Privatisation: selling off the regional silver
The NHS regions in England are the invisible layer of the health service. But the government is encouraging the buying-out and selling-off of all their best assets, says Alastair Henderson
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Can’t they go and see their GP?
Clinics can provide more than ‘clinical’ care, says Connie Smith
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The timebomb ticking away in our schools
Asbestos is present in most of Britain’s schools and by allowing the substance to be left ‘undisturbed’ the government is sanctioning a potentially lethal bequest to our schoolchildren
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Mass genetic screening: the mirage of choice
Calls are now being made for mass screening against genetic disorders. But screening offers no easy solutions, says Jane Jefferson
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Interview
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Britain’s own drug barons
Drugs are big business, and not just in Columbia or Panama. Joe Collier, pharmacologist and critic of the industry talks to healthmatters about Britain’s ‘legal’ drug problem
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Features
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Allies in the green army
Alliances must be built between all sections of the environmental and public health movements if fundamental issues of the green agenda are to be tackled, says Ged Moran
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’...Do not adjust your mind...’
In the 1960s one man, R D Laing, was responsible for knocking the psychiatric profession off its pedestal. David Ingleby explains
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Subject: psychiatry. Diagnosis: racist
The psychiatric profession is failing to come to terms with Britain’s multiracial society, says S P Sashidharan, and a disproportionate number of black people are being kept in mental institutions, mostly under coercion
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Italy’s mad law
Britain is in the throes of emptying its asylums in favour of ‘community care’. Bob Quick visited Italy recently and reflects on its 10 year experience of ‘Psichiatria Democratica’
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Pictures of health
A survey of peoples views on healthcare in Clapham, south London, produced a surprising divergence between lay people and the professionals. Rosemary Dun explains
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Chile — healthcare under the general
Popular and international pressure is slowly pushing Chile away from fascism towards democracy, but Chilean healthcare is still reeling under the inequities of the Pinochet regime. Rosa Hudson reports
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Column
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News
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Column
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A sudden death can be difficult to handle...
Sheila Goodwin, a sister in a coronary care unit, tells healthmatters of a day in her life
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