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How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory

A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.

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Children in burns prevention campaigns

Whose responsibility is it to prevent accidental burns and scalds in the home? Shane Ewen’s research shows that it’s everyone’s concern.

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The ambivalence of air

Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.

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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists

Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.

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  • Medical Association for Prevention of War : "Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred in my heart." 1915 / Medical Association for the Prevention of War.
  • Medical Association for Prevention of War : "Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred in my heart." 1915 / Medical Association for the Prevention of War.
  • Recommended standards for NHS HIV services : endorsed by Department of Health, British HIV Association, National Association of NHS Providers of AIDS Care and Treatment for Medical Foundation & Sexual Health, a charity supported by the British Medical Association.
  • A list of universal precautions for infection control by the National AIDS/STD Prevention and Control Program, Department of Health, Philippines. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A group of gay men and lesbians frolicking in water representing an advertisement for AIDS prevention by AJCS (Association des Jeunes contre le SIDA) and the S.N.E.G. [Syndicat National des Entreprise Gay]. Lithograph.
  • Eyes cannot be replaced / issued by the Ministry of Labour and National Service and produced by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents ; [designed by G.R. Morris].
  • Three photographs arranged vertically showing a seqeunce in which a man with a studded bracelet has a cake thrown over him with the message 'For him not on him'; an AIDS prevention advertisement for Landsforeningen for bøsser & lesbiske/Sundhedsstyrelsen (The Danish National Association of Gays & Lesbians). Colour lithograph by Claus Lynngaard, ca. 1995.
  • Two men kissing with water running down their faces representing an advertisement for AIDS prevention by AJCS (Association des Jeunes contre le SIDA) and the S.N.E.G. [Syndicat National des Entreprise Gay]. Lithograph.
  • Two men lie with their heads together lit from the right representing an advertisement for AIDS prevention by AJCS (Association des Jeunes contre le SIDA) and the S.N.E.G. [Syndicat National des Entreprise Gay]. Lithograph.
  • Life or death in India : a paper read at the meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, Norwich, 1873 / [by Florence Nightingale] ; with an appendix on life or death by irrigation, 1874.
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