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The father of handwashing

Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.

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Life before assistive technology

When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.

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Going viral in the online anti-vaccine wars

‘Anti-vaxxers’ are taking their message online using powerful images as well as words. But is the pro campaigners’ response any better?

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The child whose town rejected vaccines

Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.

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  • Malaria Commission of the League of Nations. Photograph, 1924.
  • Malaria Commission of the League of Nations. Photograph, 1924.
  • Malaria Commission of the League of Nations. Photograph, 1924.
  • Malaria Commission of the League of Nations. Photograph, 1924.
  • League of Nations malaria course in Singapore. Photograph, 1924.
  • League of Nations, Vienna, 1924: Health section members. Photograph, 1924.
  • League of Nations smallpox conference, the Hague, 1926: delegates seated outside. Photograph, 1926.
  • League of Nations, Vienna, 26-28 September, 1927: hygiene section delegates. Photograph, 1927.
  • Malaria Commission of the League of Nations, Geneva. Photograph by Poesch photographic agency, 1928.
  • Malaria Commission of the League of Nations, Geneva. Photograph by Poesch photographic agency, 1928.
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