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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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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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The birth of the public museum

The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.

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When a private pee is a public disgrace

The free pee is getting rarer. And the lack of suitably equipped disabled toilets is condemning people to lives cloistered away in their own homes. Discover how toilet access for all is part of an equal society.

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  • Publications by Wellcome Institute Staff, 1987
  • The yellow and green silhouettes of abstract figures with the statement 'Equal rights shared responsibility' representing an advertisement for World AIDS Day on 1st December 1995 by the Folkhälsoinstitutet [National Public Health Institute]. Colour lithograph, 1995.
  • Three numbered diagrams on how to sterilise needles with the message to protect yourself and others against HIV; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Folkehelsa Statens Institutt for Folkehelse (Norwegian Institute of Public Health). Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Two arms entwined one painted silver, the other gold with the words '[love without fear] in Swedish, Arabic, Chinese and English; one of a series of AIDS prevention advertisements by the Folkhälsoinstitutet [National Public Health Institute]. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A world map with figures and statistics highlighting the numbers of those with the HIV virus; with the message that over 50% of heterosexual HIV transmission in Norway occurs abroad; an advertisement by The Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Colour lithograph by , ca. 1995.
  • Two hands bent over each other to the left, one painted silver, the other gold with the words 'love without fear' in Chinese, Russian and Italian; an advertisement for a free handbook about HIV and AIDS by the Folkhälsoinstitutet [National Public Health Institute]. Colour lithograph by Garbergs, ca. 1995.
  • The index fingers of two hands touch, one painted silver, the other gold with the words 'love without fear' in Finnish, and partly showing in Chinese and Arabic; an advertisement for a free handbook about HIV and AIDS by the Folkhälsoinstitutet [National Public Health Institute]. Colour lithograph by Garbergs, ca. 1995.
  • Two arms entwined and bending over to the left, one painted silver, the other gold with the words 'love without fear' in English and partly showing in Swedish and Russian; advertisement for a free handbook about HIV and AIDS by the Folkhälsoinstitutet [National Public Health Institute]. Colour lithograph by Garbergs, ca. 1995.
  • Are your soups exciting? / Good Housekeeping Institute.
  • Do you give your family sweet surprises? / Good Housekeeping Institute.
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