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Homes for the hives of industry

By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.

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How architecture builds a profession of stress

Architects might produce buildings that enhance our health, but at what cost? Kristin Hohenadel explores architecture’s pressurised and stressful culture.

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The smile catchers

From facial recognition to emojis in apps, find out how the monitoring of emotions is used to get more out of workers.

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Making sunstroke insanity

Medical historian Dr Kristin Hussey takes a closer look at sunstroke and mental illness, and how, in the late 19th century, they connected at the crossroads of colonial science and the idea of whiteness.

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  • Church of St. Mildred, Whippingham: Winchester Diocesan Training College floor plan. Wood engraving by O. Jewitt, 1863.
  • A portrait of an Indian couple torn in two with the warning 'they could have saved their marriage'; an anti-AIDS advertisement for Sex Education Counselling Research Thearpy Training issued by the Family Planning Association of India. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A red male and female sign bearing Hindi lettering on blue against a black background representing word 'AIDS' with a message about the need to pratice safer sex; an advertisement issued by the Family Planning Association of India. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A hand clutching a banner inscribed 'Don't take a chance when you have a choice' with a backdrop inscribed repeatedly with the word 'AIDS'; an anti-AIDS advertisement for Sex Education Counselling Research Thearpy Training issued by the Family Planning Association of India. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A butterfly and its shadow with a message in Malay and Tamil (?) about the dangers of having multiple partners and the risk of getting AIDS; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Training and Health Education Department, Ministry of Health in Singapore. Colour lithograph, 1992.
  • Procedures for using a protective face mask in civil defence: four figures. Colour lithograph, ca. 1984.
  • Junior cat care manual / Cats Protection League.
  • Junior cat care manual / Cats Protection League.
  • Junior cat care manual / Cats Protection League.
  • Junior cat care manual / Cats Protection League.
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