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  • A cerebral atlas : illustrating the difference between the brains of mentally defective and normal individuals, with a social, mental and neurological record of 120 defectives during life / by Richard J.A. Berry.
  • A cerebral atlas : illustrating the difference between the brains of mentally defective and normal individuals, with a social, mental and neurological record of 120 defectives during life / by Richard J.A. Berry.
  • Three rows of individuals affected by AIDS, some with their heads turned, others with their hands on their faces with comments on how they need help; advertisement for the SIDA Info Service. Lithograph by L'Agence Verte.
  • The French words "jusqu'à moi" (even including me) seen as a white haze in the darkness; referring to the involvement of individuals in resisting the spread of AIDS. Silk screen print after Anne-Marie Jugnet, 1993.
  • Jaqueline [sic] Foroni rendue à son véritable sexe, ou rapport, réflexions et jugement présentés à l'Académie de Mantoue / par la Classe de Médecine, sur le sexe d'un individu vivant, connu sous le nom de Jaqueline Foroni.
  • Jaqueline [sic] Foroni rendue à son véritable sexe, ou rapport, réflexions et jugement présentés à l'Académie de Mantoue / par la Classe de Médecine, sur le sexe d'un individu vivant, connu sous le nom de Jaqueline Foroni.
  • Jaqueline [sic] Foroni rendue à son véritable sexe, ou rapport, réflexions et jugement présentés à l'Académie de Mantoue / par la Classe de Médecine, sur le sexe d'un individu vivant, connu sous le nom de Jaqueline Foroni.
  • Diagnostic test for Fragile X, using presence (normal) or absence (Fragile X syndrome) of FMR-1 protein. FMR-1 protein expression in blood cells has been made visible with antibodies against the FMR-1 protein. The presence of FMR-1 protein is made visible as red staining. a: red staining in cells of normal individual. b/c: absence of staining in male patient. d: female patient; one cell is showing staining and in the other cell there is an absence of staining - this individual is a carrier.
  • An evil man, representing medicine and religion (?), gloats over the death of the freedom of the individual in Switzerland to consume absinthe, represented as a green woman stabbed by a cross. Colour lithograph after A.-H. Gantner, 1910.
  • An evil man, representing medicine and religion (?), gloats over the death of the freedom of the individual in Switzerland to consume absinthe, represented as a green woman stabbed by a cross. Colour lithograph after A.-H. Gantner, 1910.
  • An evil man, representing medicine and religion (?), gloats over the death of the freedom of the individual in Switzerland to consume absinthe, represented as a green woman stabbed by a cross. Colour lithograph after A.-H. Gantner, 1910.
  • You're safer with Durex : Dear customer, Durex is delighted to announce that effective from 1st October 1992, the condom expiry date will be printed on every individual condom foil ... / Shaun Thaxter, Senior Product Manager - Durex.
  • You're safer with Durex : Dear customer, Durex is delighted to announce that effective from 1st October 1992, the condom expiry date will be printed on every individual condom foil ... / Shaun Thaxter, Senior Product Manager - Durex.
  • The method and means of enjoying health, vigour and long life. Adapting peculiar courses, for different constitutions; ages; abilities; valetudinary states; individual proprieties; habituated customs, and passions of mind. Suting preservatives, and correctives; to every person, for attainment thereof ... And passions of mind ... / [Everard Maynwaringe].
  • The method and means of enjoying health, vigour and long life. Adapting peculiar courses, for different constitutions; ages; abilities; valetudinary states; individual proprieties; habituated customs, and passions of mind. Suting preservatives, and correctives; to every person, for attainment thereof ... And passions of mind ... / [Everard Maynwaringe].
  • The first DNA fingerprint. The first three lanes contain DNA from a woman, her mother and her father respectively. Lanes 4 - 11 contain DNA from assorted other species including mouse, baboon, lemur, cow, grey seal and tobacco (last lane). The DNA probe used in this experiment detected tandomly repeated short stretches of DNA called minisatellites whose length varies between individuals.
  • Human eye
  • Human eye with blue iris
  • Human eye with blue iris
  • Human eye with blue iris
  • Human eye with blue iris
  • An early DNA fingerprint showing DNA patterns from a mother (lanes 2 and 8) and her four children (adjacent lanes to the right). Lane 1 is an unrelated person. The two sets of lanes show the fingerprints reveled with two different probes that detect different types of repeated sequences.
  • Human eye
  • People with DNA fingerprints - artwork
  • Three perspectives of a head divided according to phrenological 'faculties', with key. Colour pen drawing.
  • A head divided into thirty seven compartments, each containing an image representing a phrenological faculty. Wood engraving, after O.S. Fowler, c. 1840.
  • Franz Joseph Gall measuring the head of a bald, elegantly dressed old lady; her pet poodle is entwined in her wig on a chair. Coloured aquatint by F.C. Hunt after E.F. Lambert, ca. 1823.
  • Franz Joseph Gall measuring the head of a bald, elegantly dressed old lady; her pet poodle is entwined in her wig on a chair. Coloured aquatint by F.C. Hunt after E.F. Lambert, ca. 1823.
  • Franz Joseph Gall measuring the head of a bald, elegantly dressed old lady; her pet poodle is entwined in her wig on a chair. Coloured aquatint by F.C. Hunt after E.F. Lambert, ca. 1823.
  • The anti-malaria school, Nettuno, Italy: a man wearing face-protection and gloves to protect against mosquitos. Photograph, 1918/1937 (?).