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  • Nepal; town life in the Khumbu, 1986. A street in Namche Bazar (altitude 3446 metres). Men relax outside a store. In the mid-1980s, Nepal was rigidly patriarchical although Sherpa women had more autonomy than other groups. Women generally had limited access to markets, education, health care and local government. Malnutrition and poverty hit them the hardest, and female children were usually given less food than male children, especially during food shortages.
  • The villager's friend and physician. Or, A familiar address on the preservation of health, and the removal of disease on its first appearance; supposed to be delivered by a village apothecary. With cursory observations on the treatment of children, on sobriety, industry, &c ... / [James Parkinson].
  • A dictionary of hygiène and public health : comprising sanitary chemistry, engineering, and legislation, the dietetic value of foods, and the detection of adulterations, on the plan of the "Dictionnaire d'hygiène publique" of Professor Ambroise Tardieu / by Alexander Wynter Blyth.
  • A wife, her two children and a doctor stand around the bed of a man with AIDS who is attached to a drip; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Kenya National AIDS/STD Control Programme, part of the Kenya Ministry of Health. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • 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.
  • A six-sided pamphlet advertising World AIDS Day, 1 December 1993, year of the family by the World Health Organization, Global Programme on AIDS [French version]; front page illustrates a group of men, women and children of various races stand on a pink circle representing the world with red spiked balls floating around them. Colour lithograph.
  • A six-sided pamphlet advertising World AIDS Day, 1 December 1993, year of the family by the World Health Organization, Global Programme on AIDS [French version]; front page illustrates a group of men, women and children of various races stand on a pink circle representing the world with red spiked balls floating around them. Colour lithograph.
  • A six-sided pamphlet advertising the year of the family, World AIDS Day, 1st December 1993 by the World Health Organization, Global Programme on AIDS; front page illustrates a group of men, women and children of various races stand on a pink circle representing the world with red spiked balls floating around them. Colour lithograph.
  • A six-sided pamphlet advertising World AIDS Day, 1 December 1993, year of the family by the World Health Organization, Global Programme on AIDS [French version]; front page illustrates a group of men, women and children of various races stand on a pink circle representing the world with red spiked balls floating around them. Colour lithograph.
  • A six-sided pamphlet advertising the year of the family, World AIDS Day, 1st December 1993 by the World Health Organization, Global Programme on AIDS; front page illustrates a group of men, women and children of various races stand on a pink circle representing the world with red spiked balls floating around them. Colour lithograph.
  • A six-sided pamphlet advertising World AIDS Day, 1 December 1993, year of the family by the World Health Organization, Global Programme on AIDS [French version]; front page illustrates a group of men, women and children of various races stand on a pink circle representing the world with red spiked balls floating around them. Colour lithograph.
  • A six-sided pamphlet advertising the year of the family, World AIDS Day, 1st December 1993 by the World Health Organization, Global Programme on AIDS; front page illustrates a group of men, women and children of various races stand on a pink circle representing the world with red spiked balls floating around them. Colour lithograph.
  • A six-sided pamphlet advertising the year of the family, World AIDS Day, 1st December 1993 by the World Health Organization, Global Programme on AIDS; front page illustrates a group of men, women and children of various races stand on a pink circle representing the world with red spiked balls floating around them. Colour lithograph.
  • A six-sided pamphlet advertising the year of the family, World AIDS Day, 1st December 1993 by the World Health Organization, Global Programme on AIDS; front page illustrates a group of men, women and children of various races stand on a pink circle representing the world with red spiked balls floating around them. Colour lithograph.
  • A six-sided pamphlet advertising the year of the family, World AIDS Day, 1st December 1993 by the World Health Organization, Global Programme on AIDS; front page illustrates a group of men, women and children of various races stand on a pink circle representing the world with red spiked balls floating around them. Colour lithograph.
  • A six-sided pamphlet advertising World AIDS Day, 1 December 1993, year of the family by the World Health Organization, Global Programme on AIDS [French version]; front page illustrates a group of men, women and children of various races stand on a pink circle representing the world with red spiked balls floating around them. Colour lithograph.
  • For good health, use The Hygienic Co.'s sterilized milk : guaranteed pure full-cream milk : free from disease germs : the one and only firm in Portsmouth who sterilize milk and deliver in air-tight bottles... / The Hygienic Milk Co.
  • Public health.
  • A woman in a red striped top leans on the shoulder of a man representing a lovesick couple with a warning to use condoms to prevent AIDS; advertisement for the Maryland AIDS hotline. Colour lithograph by Barbara Talbot, 1988.
  • A woman in a yellow jumper holds the arm of a man representing a lovesick couple with a warning to use condoms to prevent AIDS; advertisement for the Maryland AIDS hotline. Colour lithograph by Barbara Talbot, 1988.
  • Packets of coloured condoms; advertisement for the Maryland AIDS hotline. Colour lithograph by Jerry Seidl, 1988.
  • Handling, maintenance and storage of ophthalmic surgical instruments in Kenya. Colour lithograph by the International Centre for Eye Health, ca. 2000.
  • Children going to a clinic for a health check to prevent the advance of disease. Colour lithograph by Alice Dick Dumas, ca. 1917.
  • Children walking up a grassy knoll in the open air, taking healthy exercise. Colour lithograph after F. L. Mora. 1918.
  • Children walking up a grassy knoll in the open air, taking healthy exercise. Colour lithograph after F. L. Mora. 1918.
  • A nurse, with activities performed by nurses. Colour lithograph by G. Hazan.
  • A nurse, with activities performed by nurses. Colour lithograph by G. Hazan.
  • A woman wearing spectacles picking fleas from a child's head. Etching by J. Miel.
  • A woman representing knowledge examining a sick child. Lithograph by G. Tyr after A.J.V. Orsel.
  • Toddlers and children queuing up to see the doctor. Process print after A. Dick Dumas, ca. 1920.