Stories
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Children in burns prevention campaigns
Whose responsibility is it to prevent accidental burns and scalds in the home? Shane Ewen’s research shows that it’s everyone’s concern.
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How we bury our children
Following her baby daughter’s funeral, Wendy Pratt found that visiting the grave gave her a way to carry out physical acts of caring for her child. Here she considers how parents’ nurturing instincts live on after a child’s death.
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Having children as a fat woman
When she sought fertility advice, and at antenatal appointments, Ellie Levenson found that medics were openly anti-fat. Only years later can she evaluate the true repercussions of their words and actions.
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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.
Catalogue
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Health, hygiene for children and related matters in China during the Cultural Revolution. Colour lithographs, 1973-1979.
Date: [between 1973 and 1979]Reference: 656936i
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School children visiting a segregated corrugated toilet and washing their hands: hygiene in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
Date: [2000?]Reference: 756161i
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Children using chewing sticks to clean their teeth in Uganda. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health and WHO, ca. 2000.
Date: [2000?]Reference: 812081i- Pictures
Two men use a river as a toilet from which two children are collecting water; the importance of hygiene in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph for Health Education Centre, 1997.
Date: 1997Reference: 752660i- Ephemera
When to wash your hands : adults and children / NHMRC, Commonwealth Dept. of Human Services and Health, Commonwealth Childcare Program.
Date: [1994?]