IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 SA/PHG
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Politics Of Health Group
Date(s): 1980-1986
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 box
Name of creator(s): Politics Of Health Group
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Politics Of Health Group (POHG) was established in 1977; comprised of socialists and feminists working in the health service or researching health issues, it also included activists, community workers and others interested in the politics of health; the aim of the Group was to examine the link between ill health and inequality in society, and to consider improvements to the National Health Service; the group gave rise to new independent organisations including the Women's Health Information Centre and Radical Nurses, and initiated the creation of the London Food Commission; POHG disbanded in 1986.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of the Politics Of Health Group, 1980-1986, comprising administrative papers, newsletters, publications, and material relating to J Mitchell, a member of POHG.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Unknown
Conditions governing access:
The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Papers given to the Wellcome Library in 1986-1987 by POHG.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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Related material:
POHG were a major influence in the creation of the London Food Commission (SA/LFC). Information on socialist perspectives on medicine, from a slightly earlier period, can be found in the papers of the Sigerist Society (SA/SIG).
Lesley Doyal with Imogen Pennell, The Political Economy of Health, Pluto (1979). Jeannette Mitchell, What Is To Be Done About Illness and Health?, Penguin (1984).Jane Salvage, The Politics of Nursing, Heinemann Nursing (1985). Anne Karpf, Doctoring the Box: Health, Medicine and the Media, Routledge, Kegan, Paul (1987). Wendy Farrant and Jill Russell, The Politics of Health Information: 'Beating Heart Disease' as a case study of HEC publications, Institute of Education Bedford Way paper (1987).
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.
Date(s) of descriptions: June 2008