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Children in burns prevention campaigns

Whose responsibility is it to prevent accidental burns and scalds in the home? Shane Ewen’s research shows that it’s everyone’s concern.

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The blight of the ballooning blood vessels

In 1817 an emergency operation on a London porter was hailed a ‘success’ despite the patient’s swift demise. Find out how this case became a landmark in vascular surgery.

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My illness made me an activist, but now I’m exhausted

Emily Bashforth’s illness made her an advocate but now she’s battling burnout. She argues why we all need to be mental health activists, not just those with lived experience.

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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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  • A working man with two children; advertising an exhibition in Essen on occupational health and accident prevention. Colour lithograph, 1925.
  • 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. No.2, Accident avec un extra : que faire pour soi, pour son couple / ENIPSE, Équipe nationale d'intervention en prévention et santé pour les entreprises.
  • Histoires de mecs en couple. No.2, Accident avec un extra : que faire pour soi, pour son couple / ENIPSE, Équipe nationale d'intervention en prévention et santé pour les entreprises.
  • Prevention of traffic accidents in Shanxi province, China. Colour lithograph, 1957.
  • Eyes cannot be replaced / issued by the Ministry of Labour and National Service and produced by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents ; [designed by G.R. Morris].
  • A first-aider tends to a man bleeding profusely after a fall off a broken ladder; a message about HIV/AIDS and accidents in the workplace; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the CII, the Confederation of Indian Industry programme on HIV/AIDS prevention and care. Colour lithograph by Amita P. Gupta, ca. 1997.
  • Saltare from the North East of England. Built for the manufacture of Alpaca and Mohair. Opened by Titus Salt in 1853. Planned with admirable arrangement for ensuring the health and comfort of the workpeople, and preventing accidents from the shafting and gearing.
  • The uncertainty of the signs of death, and the danger of precipitate interments and dissections, demonstrated, I. From the known laws of the animal œconomy. II. From the structure of the parts of the human body. And III. From a great variety of amusing and well-attested instances of persons who have retun'd to life ... with proper directions, both for preventing such accidents, and repairing the misfortunes brought upon the constitution by them. To the whole is added a curious and entertaining account of the funeral solemnities of many ancient and modern nations, exhibiting the precautions they made use of to ascertain the certainty of death / [Jacques-Bénigne Winslow].
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