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Going viral in the online anti-vaccine wars

‘Anti-vaxxers’ are taking their message online using powerful images as well as words. But is the pro campaigners’ response any better?

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Do you see what I see?

Is reality actually what you see, or just an elaborate illusion?

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The ambivalence of air

Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.

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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction

Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.

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  • Formation of the human foetus: five figures, showing the development from embryo at conception, to foetus of four months gestation. Colour engraving by J. Pass after D. Dodd, 1794.
  • The message 'AIDS has no cultural boundaries. Protect us!' in Arabic, Lingali, Turkish and French within an oval shape against a decorative background of varying sizes of stars connected by white lines; an advertising campaign under the Social Service d'Accueil des Etrangers et de Formation with the help of the Ministry of Health of the French Community of Belgium. Colour lithograph by Zakaria Bouazza and J-F Carlier, 1996.
  • An information sheet about an anti-AIDS poster exhibition designed and produced by Artis as part of a collaboration with the Unesco/WHO AIDS prevention education programme; with explanation about the importance of sexual responsibility. Colour lithograph, ca. 1990's.
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