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Public health campaigns and the ‘threat’ of disability

By continuing to represent disability as the feared outcome of disease, public health campaigns help to perpetuate prejudice against disabled people.

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Graphic battles in pharmacy

James Morison’s campaign against the medical establishment inspired a wave of caricatures mocking his quack medicine.

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The child whose town rejected vaccines

Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.

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Cowpox, Covid-19 and Jenner’s vaccination legacy

The well-known story of vaccination pioneer Edward Jenner has at its heart his drive to make vaccines free of charge and available to all. Now his principles extend to the global campaign for a people’s patent-free vaccine for Covid-19.

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  • A man leans against some lockers holding two books with a warning about the connection between sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS; a poster from the America responds to Aids advertising campaign. Lithograph.
  • A man leans against some lockers holding two books with a warning about the connection between sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS; a poster from the America responds to Aids advertising campaign. Black and white lithograph.
  • A man leans against some lockers holding two books with a warning about the connection between sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS; a poster from the America responds to Aids advertising campaign. Black and white lithograph.
  • A black youth wearing a gold chain and bomber jacket leans against a wire fence with a warning about the risk of sexually transmitted diseases in the young; a poster from the America responds to Aids advertising campaign. Lithograph, 1993.
  • AIDS prevention advert entitled 'Yes' by Folkhälsoinstitutet
  • The face of a man up close resting on his hands in front of him; English version in a series of AIDS prevention advertisements entitled 'Yes' by Folkhälsoinstitutet. Colour lithograph by Nina Vestlund & Co and Anti Wendel, ca. 1995.
  • Anti-retroviral treatment (ART) for people with AIDS / Khomanani.
  • Fighting HIV with food gardens ... : healthy food will help people living with HIV to keep strong and help fight sickness / Khomanani.
  • STIs can be cured / Soul City, Khomanani.
  • A woman representing syphilis; advertising Dr Abreu's sanatorium for syphilitics in Barcelona. Colour collotype by J. Thomas after R. Casas, ca. 1900.
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