Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events

Stories

  • Article

Guerrilla public health

From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.

  • Article

Self-obsessing in the age of selfies

The tiny, joyful spark of a social media ‘like’ can lead to a damaging obsession. Find out how far people will go when their phone addiction gets the upper hand.

  • Article

The island of unclaimed bodies

In New York, those who live and die on the extreme edges of society are buried on an isolated island, often forgotten and unmourned. But recent legal changes aim to reduce stigma and restore their dignity.

  • Article

NHS strikes and the decade of discontent

When the social unrest of the 1970s spread to the NHS, dissatisfied staff challenged the status quo for the first time in quarter of a century.

All stories (16)

Images

  • The message 'You can prevent AIDS'; advertisement for the AIDS information lines in California by the California State Department of Health and the California Medical Association.Colour lithograph.
  • A list of facts about AIDS by the Illinois Department of Public Health. Colour lithograph.
  • Reasons for not rushing into sex the first time; advertisement by the Michigan Department of Public Health. Lithograph.
  • [Leaflet explaining how the Department of Health's herbal medicine licensing system safeguards the public].
  • [Leaflet explaining how the Department of Health's herbal medicine licensing system safeguards the public].
  • [Leaflet explaining how the Department of Health's herbal medicine licensing system safeguards the public].
  • [Leaflet explaining how the Department of Health's herbal medicine licensing system safeguards the public].
  • [Leaflet explaining how the Department of Health's herbal medicine licensing system safeguards the public].
  • [Leaflet explaining how the Department of Health's herbal medicine licensing system safeguards the public].
  • A man's arm holds a syringe that is poised to inject a woman's arm within a red no entry sign; advertisement for the AIDS Project by the California Department of Health Services. Colour lithograph.
All images (144)

Catalogue

All works (4.1K)