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The leukaemia diagnosis I didn’t see coming

Treatment for leukaemia kept journalist Hannah Partos in isolation, like the female prisoner whose image inspired her to write this piece.

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Bubbles of history

Since the 1960s, scientists have been able to study the air from past centuries by analysing particles in Arctic ice samples. But as the polar ice melts, the future of this research is changing.

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Paris Morgue and a public spectacle of death

Known as the “only free theatre in Paris”, La Morgue was a popular place for the public to view cadavers on display.

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The first seizure

Historian Aparna Nair had her first seizure when she was 11. Here she recalls that first time, and how other people’s reactions are sometimes the most disturbing part about having a seizure.

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  • Intravenous drip bag
  • Intravenous drip bag
  • Meritor drip-feed vapor lamp.
  • Mosquito repellent oil contained in a drip-barrel. Photograph, 1910.
  • A pregnant woman attached to a drip is surrounded by medical staff on a maternity ward: Youth Development Project in Senegal. Colour lithograph by Ministère de la Jeunesse et des Sports, ca. 2000.
  • An AIDS patient on a drip receiving some flowers and an embrace from his companion with the message in French: "It is important to be there"; an advertisement by AIDES, the support group for those with HIV/AIDS. Colour lithograph by Emmanuelle Barbaras, 1994.
  • A wife, her two children and a doctor stand around the bed of a man with AIDS who is attached to a drip; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Kenya National AIDS/STD Control Programme, part of the Kenya Ministry of Health. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • A man in a striped t-shirt with his arm around another man who helps him to walk down a hospital corridor with a wheelchair and drip stand near by; with an appeal for support for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe donation account for the special care of the sick. Colour lithograph by Ingo Taubhorn and Wolfgang Mudra.
  • Numbered images and text including 2 images of a couple making love, a woman lying attached to a drip receiving a blood transfusion, a syringe injecting into an arm and a group of pregnant women; an advertisement from Laos about safe sex and AIDS prevention and the dangers of intravenous drug abuse and pregnancy. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • The Dripping Well, Hastings, Sussex. Line engraving, 1856.
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