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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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Do good mothers make good democracy?

To be psychologically fit for democracy, one distinguished paediatrician argued that you need a ‘good enough mother’ – and that we must acknowledge the bad side of our feelings.

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Does mass media pave the way to fascism?

In the aftermath of World War II, psychoanalysts found the psychological roots of authoritarianism closer to home than was comfortable.

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My important, ridiculous nose

The nose is a much-maligned appendage, but it’s a powerful organ capable of invoking powerful emotions from past memories and sexual attraction.

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  • Photos of obese man with Infantilism and thyroid disorder
  • Turner's syndrome karyotype 45,XO. This female lacks the second X chromosome present in the normal karyotype. Symptoms include short stature, neck wbbing, elbow deformity, widely spaced nipples with shield chest, primary amenorrhea, sexual infantilism and sterility. The ovaries are reduced to fibrous streaks. Also known as XO syndrome or ovarian short-stature syndrome.
  • "Look! I can walk again" : join the March of Dimes : fight infantile paralysis / National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
  • Boy who suffered from infantile paralysis
  • Boy who suffered from infantile paralysis
  • Acute pathologies, infantile diarrhoea, Chinese lithograph
  • Paediatric acu-moxa: infantile convulsions, Chinese woodcut
  • R.W.Lovett, Treatment of Infantile Paralysis
  • Acu-moxa chart: Infantile convulsions, Chinese MS, c. 1911
  • Antihelminticos Kuba en gotas para uso infantil / Laboratorios Kuba.
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