Stories
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AIDS awareness posters from the 1980s onwards
The AIDS public health poster campaign chose print even in the internet age and dealt with issues of identity and behaviour like never before.
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Nymphomania and hypersexuality in women and men
The history of nymphomania is closely bound with society's views on women and their sexuality.
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Spanish flu and the depiction of disease
The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 killed many millions more than World War I did. Find out why contemporary artistic depictions of its devastating impact are so rare.
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Thousands of years of women’s pain
Even in the 21st century, women with severe monthly pain find their suffering minimised or dismissed by the medical profession. Such pain is seen as simply a natural part of being female.
Catalogue
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The female sign incorporating the faces of five women who work in the AIDS field with a list of list of HIV-related conditions common in women by the Maricopa Area Health Education Center. Colour lithograph by Jeff Dorgay and Creative Syndicate.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 668553i- Books
Promoting safer sex : prevention of sexual transmission of AIDS and other STD proceedings of an international workshop held May 1989 in the Netherlands and organized by the Dutch Foundation for Sexually Transmitted Disease Control (STD Foundation) / edited by Maria Paalman.
Date: 1990- Pictures
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The back view of a naked man and woman walking hand in hand representing a safe-sex and AIDS-prevention advertisement to promote World AIDS Day by the Japanese Women's AIDS Foundation in association with the cosmetic company, Sheseido. Colour lithograph, 1988.
Date: 1988Reference: 678622i- Pictures
The red ribbon and the word "AIDS"; representing prevention of AIDS in women. Colour lithograph, 2004.
Date: [2004?]Reference: 658840i- Books
Adventures of a female medical detective : in pursuit of smallpox and AIDS / Mary Guinan ; with Anne D. Mather.
Guinan, Mary E.Date: 2016