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Over recent decades, the exchange of health innovations between high-income countries (HICs) and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has grown significantly. Three main types of cross-border flow...

Chris Till looks at the disinformation campaigns against the adoption of vegan diets

Making Meaning, Creating Care: Mad Zines and Self-Harm

How to think about the rise and rise of mental distress

Systemic Betrayal, Moral Injury and Distress in Community Food Support

Review: “28 Years Later” and “Shifty”

Creating a surplus

Creating a surplus

Mental ill health has been cited as a factor in the welfare overhaul, and experts agree it has worsened since the pandemic

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Catherine Will, a founding member of the blog, died this year. To mark her contribution, we offer a short selection of the articles she wrote

Anxiety and Art: Uncertain Bodies

Lived experience and social welfare policy

The NHS in Late Soviet Britain

The NHS in Late Soviet Britain

War and conflict – what’s the role of medical sociology?

The fragile worker: stigma, illness and disability in the contemporary workplace

Press release regarding mass resignation of CPH editorial team and board

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse- one year on, what has changed?

Sir Patrick’s evidence is the first time a senior figure from government at the time has confirmed the discount meals policy was a driver of transmission

How are myths about plastic pollution leading to public confusion? Lesley Henderson looks at the myths commonly circulated in the media.

Repeat child removals: structural inequality and iatrogenic harm

Trisha Greenhalgh and colleagues explore why inaccurate narratives about the mode of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 emerged early in the pandemic and shaped a flawed policy response, with tragic consequen...

Matt Hancock had ‘nuclear levels of confidence’ and Downing Street had to wait seven months for hand sanitiser