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  • Roman instruments, hairpins, needles etc.
  • Tattoing needles, bronze mounted in bone
  • Roman instruments, needles, hair ornaments etc.
  • A woman holds a syringe as if smoking a cigarette watched by a black man in a green tracksuit and another in a grey dinner suit; warning about drugs, needle-sharing and safe sex practices to prevent AIDS by the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for AIDS Education. Colour lithograph.
  • A tree with a red heart pinned to the trunk and a piece of string attached to a needle pinned to the paper; with a border littered with numerous signatures; an advertisement for the Navneprojektet [The Names Project] in Århus, a project in memory of AIDS victims in Denmark. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • dangers of contracting AIDS through sharing needles
  • risk of AIDS though reuse of needles
  • A woman's eye looking at the needle of a syringe pointing up towards a man's eye with the message in French: "Stop AIDS. Don't start!"; an anti-drugs advertisement from a campaign of 'STOP AIDS posters by the l'AIDE Suisse contre le SIDA in collaboration with the Federal Office of Public Health. Colour lithograph.
  • Chinese woodcut: Types of knives and needles (4)
  • Chinese woodcut: Types of knives and needles (5)
  • If you hate needles you'll love emla.
  • If you hate needles you'll love emla.
  • If you hate needles you'll love emla.
  • If you hate needles you'll love emla.
  • If you hate needles you'll love emla.
  • Sterilisation of needles and syringes to prevent AIDS
  • Sterilisation of needles and syringes to prevent AIDS
  • Cover of exhibition catalogue 'Needles in Medical History'
  • Chinese woodcut: Types of knives and needles (1)
  • Nano-needles shuttling the blood brain barrier, TEM
  • Chinese woodcut: Types of knives and needles (3)
  • Chinese woodcut: Types of knives and needles (2)
  • Surgical instruments, including cauterising needles. Drawing with watercolour.
  • Set of acupuncture needles with a bamboo case.
  • An Arabic man dressed in a white cloak and red headpiece holding a scroll banner showing the male and female signs, a needle about to inject into an arm, a man having a blood transmission and a fetus within the womb of a pregnant woman; an advertisement about the dangers of drugs and transmission of AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1991.
  • The nine ancient acupuncture needles, 17th Chinese (detail)
  • The nine ancient acupuncture needles, 17th Chinese (detail)
  • The nine ancient acupuncture needles, 17th Chinese (detail)
  • How to sterilize needles and syringes to avoid AIDS
  • Manufacture of needles. Etching by Mutlow after J. Farey.