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Native Americans through the 19th-century lens

The stories behind Rinehart's photographs may not be as black and white as they first appear.

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Jim, the horse of death

Horses’ blood was used to produce an antitoxin that saved thousands of children from dying from diphtheria, but contamination was a deadly problem. Find out how a horse called Jim was the catalyst for the beginnings of medical regulation.

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Native Americans and the dehumanising force of the photograph

In the second part of Native Americans through the 19th-century lens, we delve deeper into the ambivalent messages within the images.

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Rocking psychiatry with R D Laing

Turn on, tune in, drop out. Discover how six rock songs from the 1960s and 1970s link the ideas of famous therapist R D Laing with the era’s counterculture.

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  • The 8th International Congresses on Tropical Medicine and Malaria. Photograph.
  • 7th International Congresses on Tropical Medicine and Malaria, Rio de Janeiro: four scientists. Photograph, 1963.
  • The IV International Congresses on Tropical Medicine and Malaria: banquet at the Mayflower Hotel, Washington D.C. Photograph, 1948.
  • International Physiological Congress, Edinburgh, 1923
  • International Congress of Medical Librarians.
  • International Peace Congress, Chicago 1893.
  • Medal: International Medical Congress, London, 1881.
  • International Congress for the History of Medicine (VI), Leiden, 1927: delegates at the opening of the Congress. Photograph, 1927.
  • International Congress for the History of Medicine (VI), Leiden, 1927: delegates at the opening of the Congress. Photograph, 1927.
  • International Congress of Hygiene and Demography, 1891
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