Stories
- Article
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.
- Article
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.
- Long read
Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
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The blight of the ballooning blood vessels
In 1817 an emergency operation on a London porter was hailed a ‘success’ despite the patient’s swift demise. Find out how this case became a landmark in vascular surgery.
Catalogue
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A naked woman with her eyes shut and her arms crossed by her neck representing a woman in love; an advertisement for safe sex to prevent AIDS. Colour lithograph for the Ministério da Saúde, Brazil, Programa Nacional de Controle das DST/AIDS, ca. 1995.
Date: [1995?]Reference: 679262i- Pictures
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A personified red heart with eyes is split in two on impact with the word 'AIDS' below; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Korean Anti-AIDS Federation Inc. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
Date: [1995]Reference: 677748i- Pictures
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Two men and a woman sit cross legged, one covers his eyes, the woman her mouth, the other man his ears representing a warning about not being informed about AIDS. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
Date: [1995?]Reference: 677065i- Pictures
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A two-tone green and blue face with yellow eyes and two red hands shaking and text on either cheek; an advertisement for solidarity in the face of AIDS for drug dependents by the Fundação Portuguesa para o Estudo with the help of the Comissão Nacional de Luta Contra a SIDA. Colour lithograph by Ardecore Design, ca. 1996.
Date: [1995?]Reference: 676095i- Film
Institute of Ophthalmology Persian Films. 1967-1972.
Date: 1967-1972