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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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Providing care across languages
When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.
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Yoga adapts to time and place
A yoga teacher in 1930s India inspired today’s transnational practice with his spectacular fusion of tradition and innovation.
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Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
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A group comprising doctors, health and public officials gathered on a street in Bombay during an outbreak of plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.
Date: 1896Reference: 37013i- Pictures
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Ways in which AIDS is not spread from shaking hands and hugging to mosquito and insect bites; an advertisement by the Directorate of Health Services in Manipur. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
Date: [1996?]Reference: 677467i- Pictures
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AIDS for AIDS, a useful information sheet for physicians with numerous facts and figures by the National AIDS Control Organisation, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the Goverment of India. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
Date: [1995?]Reference: 677602i- Pictures
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Four arms joining at the hands to form a square inside which are 6 gremlin like HIV virus cells representing the Youth Campaign to contain the deadly HIV virus; advertisement issued by ICYO Indian Committee of Youth Organizations for Youth Workers. Colour lithograph by Akash Gulalia, ca. 1995.
Date: [1995?]Reference: 677159i- Pictures
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Illustrations and text explaining how AIDS cannot be transmitted from sharing clothes, drinking cups etc.; one of a series of educational posters issued by the Committed Communities Development Trust in Mumbai. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
Date: [1997?]Reference: 677331i