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Six personal health zines that might change your life

Personal zines put health conditions back in the hands of the people who experience them. Here are six that Wellcome Collection staff love.

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From female impersonation to drag

How did drag develop from light-hearted female impersonation to a world-dominating art form?

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Transitioning and the family album

“It’s really hard to describe to people how you know you’re a man when those ways of describing masculinity to me aren’t true. You need to find your own.”

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How do advertisers get inside our heads?

Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.

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  • Sick looking men, women and children with the question what does a person with AIDS look like; one of a series of educational posters issued by the Committed Communities Development Trust in Mumbai. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • Djibouti: involvement of women in computer work, agriculture, healthcare and child care, as a key to personal and national development, leading to health for women. Colour lithograph by Ministère de la Santé and the World Health Organization, ca. 2002.
  • Press release 15th May 1991 : "Journalists reluctant to focus on WHO HIV/AIDS figures" : HIV/AIDS global figures and the developing world / The All-Party Parliamentary Group on AIDS.
  • Press release 15th May 1991 : "Journalists reluctant to focus on WHO HIV/AIDS figures" : HIV/AIDS global figures and the developing world / The All-Party Parliamentary Group on AIDS.
  • List of symptoms of HIV infection that lead to AIDS; fifth of sixteen advertisement posters by the American Red Cross promoting education about AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1990.
  • List of symptoms of HIV infection that lead to AIDS; fifth of sixteen advertisement posters by the American Red Cross promoting education about AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1990.
  • Boris Petrovich Nikolaev and Dmitriĭ Nikolaevich Zasukhin. Photograph.
  • Men and women with the question how do you spot those with HIV; one of a series of educational posters issued by the Committed Communities Development Trust in Mumbai. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • Images of health promotion: the National Health Promotion Forum in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Department of Health, ca. 2000.
  • Images of health promotion: the National Health Promotion Forum in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Department of Health, ca. 2000.
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