Stories
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Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
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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.
Catalogue
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Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (1859-1930)
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930.Date: Late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: MS.8744- Pictures
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A soldier eyes a prostitute; the same soldier later suffers from syphilis or another sexually transmitted disease. Colour lithograph by Blas, 1936/1939.
Blas, active 1936-1939.Date: [1936/1939]Reference: 5108i- Books
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A probationary surgical essay on the syphilitic inflammation of the iris : submitted, ... to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, ... / By Adam Hunter.
Hunter, Adam, 1791-1870.Date: 1815- Books
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Impfungen mit Luesmaterial an Kaninchenaugen / von Walter Schulze.
Schulze, Walter.Date: 1905- Pictures
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A group of vaccinators leading a small-pocked woman form a procession past a university, with Death waving his scythe behind them; the members of the university doze in the foreground; attributing the decline of Germany in 19th century to vaccination and syphilis. Lithograph after C.G.G. Nittinger, 1856.
Nittinger, Carl Georg Gottlob.Date: 1856Reference: 17876i