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Mixed heritage lesbian couples and fertility treatment

For a lesbian couple who want to share their different cultural heritages with their child, fertility treatment can get very complicated.

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Rag mags and monthly issues: Five period zines to stop you seeing red

Using humour, personal experience and political activism to explore the bloody reality of menstruation.

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Six personal health zines that might change your life

Personal zines put health conditions back in the hands of the people who experience them. Here are six that Wellcome Collection staff love.

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The psychological impact of nuclear war

How would you hold up psychologically if a nuclear bomb was dropped? Discover the British government’s secret predictions from the 1980s.

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  • The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: design for an Information Resources Centre for the Wellcome Centre for Medical Science. Drawing by Mlinaric Henry and Zervudachi Ltd., ca. 1991.
  • HIV & AIDS, the issues : an education pack for hospital doctors : this teaching resource uses case histories covering several disciplines to highlight issues raised by HIV and AIDS in clinical practice / prepared by the Department of Health and the Central Office of Information.
  • List of AIDS information telephone lines; sixteenth of sixteen advertisement posters by the American Red Cross promoting education about AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1990.
  • A native American woman with plaited hair and a Native American logo as a hair decoration within a banner held up by wooden posts; an advertisement for the Native American Women's Health Education Reource Center in South Dakota. Lithograph.
  • A woman's face with a message that love is as blind as AIDS; advertisement for an information line about AIDS by the San Francisco Aids Foundation. Lithograph by Bob Huerman and Don Quijote Productions.
  • A glass with a warning that you can't catch AIDS from sharing a drink; advertisement for AIDS information lines by the California Medical Association. Colour lithograph.
  • A black woman with her arms around a black man; a representation of cheating partners in an advertisement about the risk of AIDS by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Lithograph, 1994.
  • A young black man in a tracksuit holding a towel representing the risks involved in dabbling with drugs; advertisement about AIDS by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Lithograph, 1993.
  • A native American woman holding a baby over her shoulder against a graphic backdrop representing an advertisement for the Native American Women's Health Education Reource Center in South Dakota. Colour lithograph.
  • The male sign incorporating various types and features of condoms; advertisement by the Pharmacists Planning Service for information on sexually transmitted diseases. Lithograph, 1983.
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