Stories
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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
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The desire for lighter skin
Discover why some Black people feel more attractive with lighter skin. Ngunan Adamu speaks to three women who explain how they got hooked on skin bleaching.
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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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Making sunstroke insanity
Medical historian Dr Kristin Hussey takes a closer look at sunstroke and mental illness, and how, in the late 19th century, they connected at the crossroads of colonial science and the idea of whiteness.
Catalogue
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A red male and female sign bearing Hindi lettering on blue against a black background representing word 'AIDS' with a message about the need to pratice safer sex; an advertisement issued by the Family Planning Association of India. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
Date: [1998?]Reference: 677161i- Pictures
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A black line-drawn couple kissing representing an Indian safe-sex advertisement. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997's.
Date: [1997's]Reference: 677537i- Pictures
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A drop of red blood amidst a black cross, star and crescent; set against a splattered pink and black background with a message to donate blood not shed it; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Voluntary Health Association of India and the Manipur Voluntary Health Association. Colour lithograph by Ramesh Sukumar for VHAI, ca. 1995.
Date: [1995?]Reference: 677290i- Pictures
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Five black and white syringes representing an advertisement for sterilisation of needles and syringes to prevent AIDS; by the NGO AIDS Cell Centre for Community Medicine in New Delhi. Colour lithograph by Ayuha (?), ca. December 1992.
Date: [December 1992?]Reference: 677329i- Pictures
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The word 'AIDS' in Hindi across the heads of 2 black silhouettes of a man and woman with a smaller image of a condom being removed from its packet; a safe sex and AIDS prevention advertisement in Marathi. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
Date: [1995?]Reference: 677619i