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Equality in genetics

Genetic counsellor Sasha Henriques harnessed her energy and resolve to tackle the racial biases she saw in her profession – with positive and promising results.

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A brief history of tattoos

The earliest evidence of tattoo art dates from 5000 BC, and the practice continues to hold meaning for many cultures around the world.

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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.

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  • Splints from Somaliland, East Africa.
  • East Africa (?): a convoy of trucks carrying African men. Photograph, 1914/1918 (?).
  • Somerset East, South Africa: a street. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • Centres of the slave trade in East Africa patrolled by the Royal Navy. Wood engraving, 1875.
  • East Africa: a Masai woman wearing heavy armlets, ear-lobe distenders, necklets etc. Process print, 190-.
  • East London, South Africa: part of the Buffalo River. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • M0006390: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: drawings of birth postures from Nilotic Sudan and East Africa
  • Robert Koch and Stabsarzt Kleine with a dead crocodile, East Africa. Process print after a photograph, 1906/1907.
  • Notice for conference promoting neurosurgical care in Africa: Colour lithograph by East African Congress of Neurological Surgeons, 2011.
  • East London, South Africa: a jetty and buildings near the mouth of the Buffalo River. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
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