Stories
- Article
Dirt, disease and the Inspector of Nuisances
In the days when ‘bad air’ was thought to spread disease, dozens of Inspectors of Nuisances ceaselessly struggled against the perils of dirt – both visible and invisible.
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Public health campaigns and the ‘threat’ of disability
By continuing to represent disability as the feared outcome of disease, public health campaigns help to perpetuate prejudice against disabled people.
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Two health centres, two ideologies
Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.
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The ‘undesirable epileptic’
Abused in her marriage for being 'a sick woman', Aparna Nair looked to history to make sense of the response to her epilepsy. She discovered how centuries of fear and discrimination were often endorsed by science and legislation.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
HIV/AIDS - health education/prophylaxis/prevention
Date: 1984 - 1993Reference: SA/FPA/C/E/16/3/23Part of: Family Planning Association- Archives and manuscripts
Published Papers 1965 - 66
Date: March 1965 - November 1966Reference: PP/WRO/D/6Part of: Professor Oliver Wrong- Archives and manuscripts
Press Adverts - Dips and Livestock Remedies
Cooper McDougall & Robertson LtdDate: Mar 1930 - 12 Jan 1943Reference: WF/C/M/GB/A/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Pictures
- Online
A young woman with her head thrown back wearing a band in her hair representing a woman with AIDS, a painting by a 19 year old haemophiliac who died of AIDS; an advertisement for Children Living in a World with AIDS, ca. 1997.
Date: [1997?]Reference: 678571i- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Various resources - International
Date: 1990s-2000sReference: SA/SCT/B/1/12Part of: Brent Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Centre