Stories
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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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A brief history of ventilation
As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.
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Investigating what lithium is and how it works
The more questions Laura Grace Simpkins asked about lithium, the more she realised how little is known about this powerful drug and how it affects our mental health.
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The mystery of the malignant brain
In 1884 a neurologist successfully used a patient’s symptoms, plus a new kind of map, to locate a brain tumour. Discover how his best-laid plans for treatment worked out.
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Press Adverts - Dips and Livestock Remedies
Cooper McDougall & Robertson LtdDate: Mar 1930 - 12 Jan 1943Reference: WF/C/M/GB/A/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Pictures
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Two open mouths bearing tongues curving up in a phallic way and joining in the middle with the message in German 'kissing does not kill'; a safe sex advertisement by the Real AIDS Grazer Kunst Verein. Colour lithograph by Matthias Herrmann, 1993.
Herrmann, Matthias, 1963-Date: 1993Reference: 675214i- Pictures
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People using Anios disinfectant to destroy microbes representing infectious diseases. Colour lithograph by G. de Trye-Maison, ca. 1910.
Trye-Maison, G. de, active approximately 1910.Date: [1910?]Reference: 460155i- Pictures
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A personified condom with two fingers in his mouth as he wolf-whistles; with the message 'Think before you act! AIDS is transmitted by sexual contact - condoms protect'; an advertisement by Helsedirektoratet. Colour lithograph, 1986.
Date: [1986]Reference: 676616i- Pictures
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Two men and a woman sit cross legged, one covers his eyes, the woman her mouth, the other man his ears representing a warning about not being informed about AIDS. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
Date: [1995?]Reference: 677065i