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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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Desperate housewives and suburban neurosis

Discover how a pioneering health centre replaced housewives’ supposedly empty home lives with a social space that encouraged healthy child rearing.

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Why gene editing can never eliminate disability

In a world where DNA testing and gene editing offer ways to eliminate certain disabilities, Jaipreet Virdi explores a more accepting and inclusive approach.

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  • A health worker inviting two young men and two young women into a Senegal health center. Colour lithograph by Senegal Service National de la Sante Reproductive, ca. 2000.
  • Four scenes involving health workers advising young men and women in Senegal. Colour lithograph by Senegal Service National de la Sante Reproductive, ca. 2002.
  • A group of young people going into an information health centre in Senegal. Colour lithograph by Senegal Service National de la Sante Reproductive, ca. 2000.
  • Ehemera from the Centre for Sexual and Reproductive Health collection held in the Library & Archives Serviice at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
  • A man sells a woman an artificial leg at national health service prices. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • Recommended standards for NHS HIV services : endorsed by Department of Health, British HIV Association, National Association of NHS Providers of AIDS Care and Treatment for Medical Foundation & Sexual Health, a charity supported by the British Medical Association.
  • H1 in 5 people think you can get HIV from kissing : you can't : poor sexual health thrives on ignorance ... / Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • Had an itch, ignored it, got worse, where's that number? What will they think? : ......Pheew! Wasn't too bad, needed treatment, no lasting harm, so glad I went ... / Health Education Authority.
  • H1 in 5 people think you can get HIV from kissing : you can't : poor sexual health thrives on ignorance ... / Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • Services for HIV-positive men in Camden and Islington / Camden & Islington Gay Men's Team.
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