Stories
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Spanish flu and the depiction of disease
The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 killed many millions more than World War I did. Find out why contemporary artistic depictions of its devastating impact are so rare.
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Dirt, disease and the Inspector of Nuisances
In the days when ‘bad air’ was thought to spread disease, dozens of Inspectors of Nuisances ceaselessly struggled against the perils of dirt – both visible and invisible.
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The colonist who faced the blue terror
India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.
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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.
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The face of a woman half obscured by the vertical lettering Lafla Klinikken; an advertisement for a clinic for sexually transmitted diseases and HIV in Oslo. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
Date: [1995?]Reference: 676578i- Pictures
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The attractive face of a woman who does not have AIDS yet carries the HIV virus which can spread the disease; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Ministerio de Salud Pública, Uruguay. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
Date: [1995?]Reference: 679149i- Books
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The face as an index to disease / by Judson S. Bury.
Bury, Judson Sykes.Date: [1889]- Pictures
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Head of a man with a severe disease affecting his face and neck. Watercolour by Christopher D' Alton, 1853.
D'Alton, Christopher, active 1847-1871.Date: 1853Reference: 35378i- Pictures
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Head of a man with a severe disease affecting his face and neck. Watercolour drawing by Christopher D' Alton, 1856.
D'Alton, Christopher, active 1847-1871.Date: 1856Reference: 35392i