Stories
- Article
Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
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Thomas Sankara and the stomachs that made themselves heard
Thomas Sankara’s vision to transform farming and health in Burkina Faso turned to dust with his assassination. Perry Blankson highlights the considerable achievements of Sankara’s brief span in power.
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Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
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A symbol of a lost homeland
The story of one protective amulet from Palestine reveals a complex tale. Encompassing the personal history of an influential doctor and collector, it provides a window onto dispossession and exile, and the painful repercussions that are still felt today.
Catalogue
- Ephemera
AIDS ephemera : Condoms. Box 2.
- Books
The wages of sin? : struggles over the social meaning of venereal disease and AIDS / Elizabeth Fee.
Fee, ElizabethDate: 1993- Pictures
- Online
A dart board on which a white man and and an African blame each other for AIDS. Colour silk screen print, 1993, after Chéri Samba, 1990.
Samba, Chéri, 1956-Date: 1993Reference: 672778iPart of: Images pour la lutte contre le SIDA- Archives and manuscripts
Corporate photography shoots C0000216 - C0000281
Date: 1993-1994Reference: WT/B/11/1/6Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
Ktz: AIDS Worldwide - Africa
Date: 1998Reference: SA/WHL/14/35/32/9Part of: Women's Health Library: archive