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  • A face drawn in black lines with yellow highlights against a striped grey square background with upside down text at the top bearing the message in French: "It is easy to die" and the right way up at the bottom: "It may be difficult to live"; an advertisement for AIDS prevention by L'Alexandra. Colour lithograph by Gilbert Theillin.
  • Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.
  • Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.
  • Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.
  • Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.
  • Two medicine vendors, their wives, cats and dogs arguing about the merits of their antiscorbutic pills. Etching by J. Bretherton after H.W. Bunbury, 1774.
  • Government information about AIDS : this leaflet is being sent to every household in the country to inform everyone about AIDS, in order to help stop the spread of this serious disease. It deals with matters of health and sex that may be disturbing. Please make sure that everyone in your household who may need this information sees this leaflet : stop press, special AIDS line 0800 555777 /c[issued by the Department of Health and Social Security].
  • A series of warning signs with illustrations demonstrating what not do to avoid AIDS including anal sex, circular arrows to indicate multiple sexual partners, oral sex, using shared needles; further illustrations in blue demonstrate how using your own razor, toothbrush and regularly showering illustrate how AIDS can be prevented; with a condom and a warning that any unprotected sexual intercourse increases the risk of AIDS; an advertisement by the Österreichische AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph.
  • A woman in bed holding her new born baby. Phototype by Danesi after a bas-relief, 15--.
  • A surgery and barbershop. Coloured lithograph attributed to C. Mohr.
  • The circumcision of Christ. Coloured engraving.
  • Chinese woodcut: Abscesses -- fugu and duikou abscess
  • The dance of death. Oil painting.
  • The dance of death. Oil painting.
  • The dance of death. Oil painting.
  • A man smiles wearing an open shirt with one hand in his pocket representing an advertisement for safe sex; created by Palmer Jarvis Communications for the Alberta HIVAIDS Prevention Campaigns for Young Adults. Lithograph.
  • Four gay men embracing; representing solidarity with the Berliner AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph by Michael Taubenheim and Jason R. Engelbart for the Berliner AIDS-Hilfe e.V.
  • Protests against the Corrie Amendment to the 1967 Abortion Act in the United Kingdom. Colour process prints, 1979-1980.
  • Protests against the Corrie Amendment to the 1967 Abortion Act in the United Kingdom. Colour process prints, 1979-1980.
  • Protests against the Corrie Amendment to the 1967 Abortion Act in the United Kingdom. Colour process prints, 1979-1980.
  • Protests against the Corrie Amendment to the 1967 Abortion Act in the United Kingdom. Colour process prints, 1979-1980.
  • Protests against the Corrie Amendment to the 1967 Abortion Act in the United Kingdom. Colour process prints, 1979-1980.
  • Protests against the Corrie Amendment to the 1967 Abortion Act in the United Kingdom. Colour process prints, 1979-1980.
  • Protests against the Corrie Amendment to the 1967 Abortion Act in the United Kingdom. Colour process prints, 1979-1980.
  • Protests against the Corrie Amendment to the 1967 Abortion Act in the United Kingdom. Colour process prints, 1979-1980.
  • Protests against the Corrie Amendment to the 1967 Abortion Act in the United Kingdom. Colour process prints, 1979-1980.
  • Protests against the Corrie Amendment to the 1967 Abortion Act in the United Kingdom. Colour process prints, 1979-1980.
  • Protests against the Corrie Amendment to the 1967 Abortion Act in the United Kingdom. Colour process prints, 1979-1980.
  • Protests against the Corrie Amendment to the 1967 Abortion Act in the United Kingdom. Colour process prints, 1979-1980.
  • Protests against the Corrie Amendment to the 1967 Abortion Act in the United Kingdom. Colour process prints, 1979-1980.