Stories
- In pictures
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.
- Article
The cook who became a pariah
New York, 1907. Mary Mallon spreads infection, unaware that her name will one day become synonymous with typhoid.
- Article
Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs
The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.
- Article
Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
Catalogue
- Pictures
- Online
Hedi Haldimann, a woman in a white collar with the message in Italian: "The disease is not a question of guilt. This is also true for AIDS patients"; one of a series of posters from a Solidarity 'Stop AIDS' campaign by Aiuto AIDS Svizzero in collaboration with the Federal Office of Public Health. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 674644i
- Pictures
- Online
A list of quotes from people living with AIDS to deter prejudice against the disease by the Lions Club of Bombay Hlltop and the HIV/AIDS Information and Guidance Centre in Bombay. Lithograph, ca. 1996.
Date: [1996?]Reference: 677263i- Archives and manuscripts
Company-wide Newsletters & Journals (internal)
Date: 1942 - 2000Reference: WF/M/PB/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Wellcome Press Cuttings
Date: November - December 1986Reference: WF/M/PC/05/04/04Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
AIDS and substance abuse / Larry Siegel, editor.
Date: [1988]