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  • A medallion showing the head of an ancient Greek athlete; advertising the cultural section of an exhibition in Stuttgart on hygiene (Ausstellung für Gesundheitspflege). Colour lithograph, 1914.
  • A naked figure sits hugging a purple cushion on which a bird stands; within a line drawn heart edged with devilish creatures; an advertisement for the National Program for the Rights of the Child and Adolescent by the Ministerio de Cultura y Educación de la Nación. Colour lithograph by S (?) Kerm, ca. 1996.
  • Hortus medicus et philosophicus : in quo plurimarum stirpium breves descriptiones, novae icones non paucae, indicationes locorum natalium, observationes de cultura earum peculiares, atque insuper nonnulla remedia euporista, nec non philologica quaedam continentur ... / autore Ioachimo Camerario ... Item Sylva Hercynia: sive catalogus plantarum sponte nascentium in montibus et locis plerisque Hercyniae Sylvae quae respicit Saxoniam, conscriptus singulari studio à Ioanne Thalio.
  • Hortus medicus et philosophicus : in quo plurimarum stirpium breves descriptiones, novae icones non paucae, indicationes locorum natalium, observationes de cultura earum peculiares, atque insuper nonnulla remedia euporista, nec non philologica quaedam continentur ... / autore Ioachimo Camerario ... Item Sylva Hercynia: sive catalogus plantarum sponte nascentium in montibus et locis plerisque Hercyniae Sylvae quae respicit Saxoniam, conscriptus singulari studio à Ioanne Thalio.
  • Rows of the faces of women, some with death masks, representing women with AIDS; advertisment for free HIV/AIDS tests by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. Colour lithograph by Kerr and Malley, 1992.
  • A dark room with light coming in from the top and a door to the right; with the AIDS red ribbon above a logo featuring a small box bearing two hands coming in from the left and right and the words 'Abraco' [hug]; an advertisement for 1st December, World AIDS Day by Lisboa Camara Municipal, Cultura. Colour lithograph by Serigrafia Rujoca, Lda., ca. 1990's.
  • A red and pink ribbon against a rainbow of colours and a quotation from Mother Jones to pray for the dead and fight for the living; with an advertisement by the Syracuse Cultural Workers. Colour lithograph by Amy E. Bartell, 1995.
  • Two plus signs [for HIV positive] separated by a line with two arrows pointing right [for the male symbol] representing an advertisement for HanseGay, 1995, a cultural event by Rat + Tat e.V. for gays and lesbians. Colour lithograph by Langenhan, 1995.
  • A bearded man, two women and a child playing tug of war with the skeletal figure of death watched by a multi-cultural crowd; a drawing by Monica Fernandez Rodriguez, winner of the 4th prize in a graphics project by the Groupe SIDA Genève. Colour lithograph.
  • National Children's Bureau Conference : World AIDS Day Conference 1995 : children's participation in HIV services : needs, rights and cultural diversity / a major one day conference organised by the National Forum on AIDS and Children, the European Forum on HIV/AIDS, Children and Families and the National Children's Bureau.
  • National Children's Bureau Conference : World AIDS Day Conference 1995 : children's participation in HIV services : needs, rights and cultural diversity / a major one day conference organised by the National Forum on AIDS and Children, the European Forum on HIV/AIDS, Children and Families and the National Children's Bureau.
  • National Children's Bureau Conference : World AIDS Day Conference 1995 : children's participation in HIV services : needs, rights and cultural diversity / a major one day conference organised by the National Forum on AIDS and Children, the European Forum on HIV/AIDS, Children and Families and the National Children's Bureau.
  • National Children's Bureau Conference : World AIDS Day Conference 1995 : children's participation in HIV services : needs, rights and cultural diversity / a major one day conference organised by the National Forum on AIDS and Children, the European Forum on HIV/AIDS, Children and Families and the National Children's Bureau.
  • Four children sit chatting about AIDS; advertising the 4th course on AIDS education for higher education students in the 'Chamberí' district of Madrid; held at the Centro Cultural "Galileo" in Madrid on 16 November 1994; organised by the Centre de Estudios Sociales Aplicados [Center of Applied Social Studies]. Colour lithograph by Irene Bordoy, 1994.
  • Children of different nationalities stand, some waving; advertising the 6th course on AIDS education for higher education students in the 'Tetuán' district of Madrid; held at the Centro Cultural "Puerta de Toledo" in Madrid on 23 November 1995; organised by the Centre de Estudios Sociales Aplicados [Center of Applied Social Studies]. Colour lithograph, 1995.
  • A variety of Native Indian accessories and musical instruments with a warning to get children hooked on cultural pastimes rather than let them get involved in teen pregnancy, drugs and alcohol that can lead to AIDS or other sexually transmitted diseases; advertisement by the Seattle Indian Health Board. Colour lithograph by Stewart Tilger and Christine P. Salvador.
  • Four children sit chatting about AIDS while eating bread around a table representing an advertisement for the 5th course on AIDS education for higher education students in the 'Centro" district of Madrid; held at the Centro Cultural "Puerta de Toledo" in Madrid on 7 February 1995; organised by the Centre de Estudios Sociales Aplicados [Center of Applied Social Studies]. Colour lithograph by Irene Bordoy, 1995.
  • The message 'AIDS has no cultural boundaries. Protect us!' in Arabic, Lingali, Turkish and French within an oval shape against a decorative background of varying sizes of stars connected by white lines; an advertising campaign under the Social Service d'Accueil des Etrangers et de Formation with the help of the Ministry of Health of the French Community of Belgium. Colour lithograph by Zakaria Bouazza and J-F Carlier, 1996.
  • Nepal; travelling butcher in the Khumbu, 1986. Well-dressed Sherpas buying yak meat from butcher, near Lukla (altitude 2827 metres). Meat is not generally eaten by Sherpas who are Buddhists, adhering to the oldest, unreformed sect of Tibetan Buddhism known as Kar-gyud-pa. Buddhists make up about 5.3% of Nepal's population whilst 89.5% are Hindu. The cultural heritage of the Sherpas, however, has always remained with Tibet.
  • Nepal; Kathmandu Valley, 1986. The Kathmandu Valley is situated in Nepal's Hill Region ('Pahar' in Nepali - altitutides 1000-4000 metres), and is the country's most fertile and urbanised area as well as being its political and cultural centre. The hills, sculpted into a vast complex of terraces, are extensively cultivated. Hill farmers produced food staples, mostly rice and corn, although this is still a food-deficit area. Other crops include wheat, millet, barley, sugarcane, tobacco, potatoes and oilseed. The climate is mild with summer temperatures reaching 30 degrees C and winter temperatures about 10 degrees C. The most common trees are oak, alder, jacaranda and rhododendron.
  • Taxus baccata L. Taxaceae European Yew. Trees are feminine in Latin, so while Taxus has a masculine ending (-us), its specific name, baccata (meaning 'having fleshy berries' (Stearn, 1994)), agrees with it in gender by having a female ending ( -a). Distribution: Europe. Although regarded as poisonous since Theophrastus, Gerard and his school friends used to eat the red berries (they are technically called 'arils') without harm. Johnson clearly ate the fleshy arils and spat out the seed, which is as poisonous as the leaves. It is a source of taxol, an important chemotherapeutic agent for breast and other cancers. It was first extracted from the bark of T. brevifolia, the Pacific yew tree, in 1966. About 1,100 kg of bark produces 10 g of taxol, and 360,000 trees a year would have been required for the needs of the USA – an unsustainable amount. In 1990 a precursor of taxol was extracted from the needles of the European yew so saving the Pacific trees. It is now produced in fermentation tanks from cell cultures of Taxus. Curiously, there is a fungus, Nodulisporium sylviforme, which lives on the yew tree, that also produces taxol. Because taxol stops cell division, it is also used in the stents that are inserted to keep coronary arteries open. Here it inhibits – in a different way, but like anti-fouling paint on the bottom of ships – the overgrowth of endothelial cells that would otherwise eventually block the tube. The economic costs of anticancer drugs are significant. Paclitaxel ‘Taxol’ for breast cancer costs (2012) £246 every 3 weeks
  • Superb virility of manhood : giving the causes and simple home methods of curing the weaknesses of men / by Bernarr Macfadden, assisted by various medical and other authorities.
  • Embryonic kidney cells
  • Embryonic kidney cells
  • sensory neuron from an adult DRG
  • sensory neurons from an adult DRG
  • Brain cancer stem cells
  • Human colon cancer cells
  • Human colon cancer cells
  • Astrocytes and oligodendrocytes from neural stem cells