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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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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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A history of twins in science

For thousands of years, twins have been a source of fascination in mythology, religion and the arts. Since the 19th century, they have also been the subject of scientific study and experimentation.

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In search of the ‘nature cure’

Under the competing pressures of modern life, many of us succumb to mental ill health. Samantha Walton explores why so-called ‘nature cures’ don’t help, and how the living world can actually help us.

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  • A blue silhouette figure stands with one arm resting on a cave wall, the other behind his head as he looks out at a sunset across the sea in the form of a blue target with a yellow surround; an advertisement for the 1st meeting about Andalucian AIDS and Society on 2 December 1989, a collaboration by the Civic Committee of Anti-AIDS Granada and the Andalusian School of Public Health. Colour lithograph. 1989.
  • Home and Colonial Training College, London. Etching.
  • Playground of the Home and Colonial Infant School Society, London. Wood engraving, c. 1840.
  • National school, Clerkenwell, London. Wood engraving by J.R. Jobbins.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • A faithful unmarried couple, a man with his 3 faithful wives, a couple sitting in a STD clinic and a man receiving an injection with sterilised equipment; one of a series of educational posters issued by the Committed Communities Development Trust in Mumbai. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • Text and illustrations explaining how HIV is spread from sexual intercourse to transfusion of infected blood; one of a series of educational posters issued by the Committed Communities Development Trust in Mumbai. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • A man holding another man by the shoulders as he informs him about AIDS; one of a series of educational posters issued by the Committed Communities Development Trust in Mumbai. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • A mother tending her sick child, a boy washing his hands, a man bandaging a wound, a woman washing clothes and 2 people cleaning their teeth; one of a series of AIDS prevention educational posters issued by the Committed Communities Development Trust in Mumbai. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
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Bringing Health Advice to a Wider Public

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