Stories
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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.
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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.
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Demanding a diagnosis for invisible pain
After dozens of hospital visits and handfuls of painkillers, a plethora of scans and tests bring diagnosis closer for Jaipreet Virdi.
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The colonist who faced the blue terror
India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.
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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- Videos
The big e - AIDS special.
Date: 1999- Pictures
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A semi-naked man resting against some rocks being tended by a man wearing a turban and beard with a horse on a pathway to the right; a woodcut illustration representing a man sick with AIDS receiving support; an AIDS prevention advertisement for the AIDS-sekretariatet, Sundhedsstyrelsen. Colour lithograph by Freddy Pedersen/Laursen, ca. 1995.
Date: [1995?]Reference: 676506i- Pictures
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A man in a striped t-shirt with his arm around another man who helps him to walk down a hospital corridor with a wheelchair and drip stand near by; with an appeal for support for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe donation account for the special care of the sick. Colour lithograph by Ingo Taubhorn and Wolfgang Mudra.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 674201i- Pictures
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The roof tops of buildings in Paris with the message: "We help patients at home to fight AIDS"; an advertisement by Mairie de Paris and VLS [Vaincre le SIDA]. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 672491i