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How I cured my fear of vomiting
Emetophobia ruled every waking moment of Alex’s life. Until he came to realise he couldn’t live that way any more.
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Blood money: Taking periods out of poverty
Periods are not a wound that needs to heal, nor is the blood a sign of injury. So why are we still so repelled by them?
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How to thrive in lockdown
Gareth Berliner shares how being a Disabled person has given him the resilience and motivation to find a new creative challenge during lockdown.
Catalogue
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School children visiting a segregated corrugated toilet and washing their hands: hygiene in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
Date: [2000?]Reference: 756161i- Books
Hygiene in the home : explaining the domestic and toilet uses of ... Santron the latest germicide / W.J. Rendell Ltd.
W.J. Rendell Ltd.Date: [between 1940 and 1945?]- Pictures
Two men use a river as a toilet from which two children are collecting water; the importance of hygiene in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph for Health Education Centre, 1997.
Date: 1997Reference: 752660i- Digital Images
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Wellcome museum, primitive medicine: hygiene
- Archives and manuscripts
Calmic Hygiene (Home and Overseas)
Date: c.1965 - 1984Reference: WF/M/PL/047Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd