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Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard

Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.

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Milk trails round Euston

Where cows once grazed near Wellcome Collection in London, baristas now froth their milk. Esther Leslie uncovers Euston’s dairy-based urban history.

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Guerrilla public health

From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.

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  • NCUACS : National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists under the guidance of the Royal Society's National Committee for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology : with compliments.
  • 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 black woman leaning on one hand with a condom; advertisement for safe sex by the Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention and the AIDS Committee of Toronto. Colour lithograph by Stephanie Marlin.
  • 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].
  • Psychology for the fighting man : prepared for the fighting man himself / by a committee of the National Resarch Council with the collaboration of Science service.
  • A black man whose shadow is reflected on a wall behind, with a condom; advertisement for safe sex by the Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention and the AIDS Committee of Toronto. Colour lithograph by Michael Chambers.
  • A map of Kuwait in the national colours of red, black, green and white with silhouette black figures of men, women and children within a circle bordered at the top by Arabic script: the logo for Kuwait National AIDS Committee; within a backdrop of a cityscape of Kuwait City representing an advertisement for the Kuwait Third International Conference on AIDS at the Kuwait Sheraton on 12 to 14th February 1990. Colour lithograph, 1990.
  • A woman in yellow with long black hair hugging the purple silhouette of a man representing a warning about the dangers of casual sex and AIDS; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the National AIDS Committee in Vietnam. Colour lithograph by Vú Huyén, ca. 1995.
  • A map of Kuwait in the national colours of red, black, green and white with silhouette black figures of men, women and children within a circle bordered at the top by Arabic script: the logo for the Kuwait National AIDS Committee; within a blue backdrop containing a boy dressed in a brown uniform with a cap representing a warning about AIDS in Kuwait. Colour lithograph, 1990.
  • The white silhouettes of 3 men, a child and 3 women behind an orange building within an arrowed circle bearing the words in Arabic and English 'Sharing the challenge'; an advertisement for World AIDS Day 1st December 1991 by Kuwait National AIDS Committee. Colour lithograph, 1991.
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