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The father of handwashing

Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.

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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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How architecture builds a profession of stress

Architects might produce buildings that enhance our health, but at what cost? Kristin Hohenadel explores architecture’s pressurised and stressful culture.

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Rediscovering Margaret Louden, a forgotten NHS hero

Bored during lockdown, David Jesudason started bin diving at night. Then a chance discovery set him on a new path: to tell the story of a forgotten female surgeon.

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  • Three numbered diagrams on how to sterilise needles with the message to protect yourself and others against HIV; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Folkehelsa Statens Institutt for Folkehelse (Norwegian Institute of Public Health). Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Two condoms make up the words 'Condomplation', representing a play on the word 'contemplation' and safe sex to prevent AIDS by HEROglyphics. Colour lithograph by Christopher Hayes for Maryland Institute of Design CO-OP, 1991.
  • A collection of papers, intended to promote an institution for the cure and prevention of infectious fevers in Newcastle and other populous towns. Together with the communications of the most eminent physicians relative to the safety and importance of annexing fever-wards to the Newcastle and other infirmaries / [John Clark].
  • The world wrapped in the AIDS red ribbon bearing the words: "droits et devoirs partageons"(rights and duties share) with figures arranged arm in arm along part of the ribbon; an advertisement for a solidarity march at the Place de la Libération, Nice on 1st December, 1995, World AIDS Day; organised by associations and institutions fighting against AIDS including CRIPS (Centre régional d'information et de prévention du SIDA). Colour lithograph.
  • Histoires de mecs : accident avec un extra : que faire pour soi, pour son couple / SNEG, prévention, IPSR ; Pascal d'Ameyal [photography].
  • Histoires de mecs : accident avec un extra : que faire pour soi, pour son couple / SNEG, prévention, IPSR ; Pascal d'Ameyal [photography].
  • Histoires de mecs en couple : construire son couple / SNEG, prévention, IPSR ; Pascal d'Ameyal [photography].
  • Histoires de mecs : Couple séroneg cherche jeune recrue / SNEG, prévention, IPSR ; Pascal d'Ameyal [photography].
  • Histoires de mecs en couple : couple sérodifférent aime plans évasion / SNEG, prévention, IPSR ; Pascal d'Ameyal [photography].
  • Histoires de mecs en couple, saison 1 : capote ou pas entre partenaires stables? : Avant de décider, ensemble faites le point sur vos prise de risques passées et dépistez-vous / SNEG, prévention, ipsr.eu ; Photo:Pascal d'Ameyal.
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