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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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How we bury our children

Following her baby daughter’s funeral, Wendy Pratt found that visiting the grave gave her a way to carry out physical acts of caring for her child. Here she considers how parents’ nurturing instincts live on after a child’s death.

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Having children as a fat woman

When she sought fertility advice, and at antenatal appointments, Ellie Levenson found that medics were openly anti-fat. Only years later can she evaluate the true repercussions of their words and actions.

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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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  • School children visiting a segregated corrugated toilet and washing their hands: hygiene in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • School children visiting a segregated corrugated toilet and washing their hands: hygiene in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • Children and HIV : Rome symposium / Symposium on the needs of children and familes affected by HIV - a European perspective, National Children's Bureau, The Institute of Health ; sponsored by the Wellcome Foundation Ltd. as part of its international Positive Action programme of HIV education, care and community support.
  • A nurse, with activities performed by nurses. Colour lithograph by G. Hazan.
  • A nurse, with activities performed by nurses. Colour lithograph by G. Hazan.
  • Children going to a clinic for a health check to prevent the advance of disease. Colour lithograph by Alice Dick Dumas, ca. 1917.
  • A woman wearing spectacles picking fleas from a child's head. Etching by J. Miel.
  • A woman representing knowledge examining a sick child. Lithograph by G. Tyr after A.J.V. Orsel.
  • Children washing their hands, cleaning and tidying: World Health Day in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, 2003.
  • Toddlers and children queuing up to see the doctor. Process print after A. Dick Dumas, ca. 1920.
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