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How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory

A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.

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The ambivalence of air

Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.

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Fake news and the flu

Discover how history shows that fake news could play a deadly role – by generating potentially lethal misinformation during a future pandemic.

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The building as tool of healing

When we’re ill, it’s not just medical care that helps to treat us. Architects have discovered that the right environment can play an important part too.

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  • A woman behind a health facility counter displaying anti-tuberculosis drugs with tuberculosis and leprosy posters behind: tuberculosis and leprosy prevention in Kenya. Lithograph by Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, 2009.
  • A woman behind a health facility counter displaying anti-tuberculosis drugs with tuberculosis and leprosy posters behind: tuberculosis and leprosy prevention in Kenya. Lithograph by Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, 2009.
  • Africans gathering information leaflets from a table: tuberculosis prevention in Kenya. Lithograph by Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, 2009.
  • A man on a motorbike in discussion with another: tuberculosis prevention in Kenya. Lithograph by Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, 2009.
  • Three men wearing KAPTLD branded t-shirts look at a poster bearing images of tuberculosis prevention: health care services for TB in Kenya. Colour lithograph by KAPTLD, 2009.
  • A mother and child; advertising the prevention by German mothers of the transmission of tuberculosis to and from their children. Lithograph after E. Doepler the younger, 1906.
  • A mother and child; advertising the prevention by German mothers of the transmission of tuberculosis to and from their children. Lithograph after E. Doepler the younger, 1906.
  • A man coughing and spreading germs: preventing tuberculosis and lung disease in Kenya. Colour lithograph by KAPTLD, ca. 2000.
  • A child's face with a bow tie amidst rays of light: preventing tuberculosis in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, ca. 2000.
  • A woman taking pills before a nurse in a clinic: preventing the spread of tuberculosis in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph by Desalegn Worku for USAID and TB/CTA, ca. 2000.
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