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The spirit catches you and you fall down : a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures / Anne Fadiman.

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 53 x 37.5 cm

A group of men, women and child from Laos in both traditional and western dress representing an AIDS prevention advertisement. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.

Scientific annaul report for 2013 : Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit to Minister of Health, Government of the Lao PDR.

Numbered images and text including a family sitting talking, syringes with a red cross and a variety of condoms representing an advertisement from Laos for education about AIDS, the dangers of intravenous drug abuse and the importance of condoms and safe sex. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.

Health research in Thailand & Laos : the Wellcome Trust--Mahidol University--Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Programme / Wellcome Trust.

<p>Handbill advertising Krao, a young woman with an unusually hairy body (though not as hairy as the  illustration suggested) who was found in the jungles of Laos in 1885 by Carl Bock. She was exhibited as the missing link, cashing in on the publicity of Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory and the victorian / edwardian fascination with freak shows. She appeared at the Royal Aquarium exhibition hall, Westminster on March 31st 1887. The leaflet shows Krao sitting on cloth, naked, her hands raised to chest level.</p>

Freak shows ephemera. Box 2.

1 sheet : illustrations, portrait ; 22 cm

"Krao", the "missing link" : a living proof of Darwin's theory of the descent of man : special lectures, 2.30, 5.30 & 9.30... : all should see her : [seated illustration].

Malaria at Nam Ngum Dam construction site in Laos. I, Suppression with combinations of sulfonamides and pyrimethamine / Isao Ebisawa [and others].

The Wellcome Trust Thailand Major Overseas Programme : including SMRU and the Laos collaboration : report for the review panel vist, July 2009.

xvi, 438 pages : frontispiece, illustrations, plates (2 color), portraits, folded map ; 23 cm

Temples and elephants : the narrative of a journey of exploration through Upper Siam and Lao / by Carl Bock.

<p>Handbill advertising Krao, a young woman with an unusually hairy body (though not as hairy as the poster illustrations suggested) who was found in the jungles of Laos in 1885 by Carl Bock. She was exhibited as the missing link, cashing in on the publicity of Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory and the victorian / edwardian fascination with freak shows. She appeared at the Royal Aquarium exhibition hall, Westminster on March 25th 1887. The leaflet shows Krao standing on a rock against rich, jungle foliage, wearing a loin cloth, her arms raised to chest level, around a plant.</p>

Freak shows ephemera, box 2.

"Krao", the "missing link" : a living proof of Darwin's theory of the descent of man : special lectures, 2.30, 5.30 & 9.30... : all should see her : [jungle illustration].

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The spirit catches you and you fall down : a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures / Anne Fadiman.

A group of men, women and child from Laos in both traditional and western dress representing an AIDS prevention advertisement. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.

Scientific annaul report for 2013 : Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit to Minister of Health, Government of the Lao PDR.

Numbered images and text including a family sitting talking, syringes with a red cross and a variety of condoms representing an advertisement from Laos for education about AIDS, the dangers of intravenous drug abuse and the importance of condoms and safe sex. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.

Health research in Thailand & Laos : the Wellcome Trust--Mahidol University--Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Programme / Wellcome Trust.

"Krao", the "missing link" : a living proof of Darwin's theory of the descent of man : special lectures, 2.30, 5.30 & 9.30... : all should see her : [seated illustration].

Malaria at Nam Ngum Dam construction site in Laos. I, Suppression with combinations of sulfonamides and pyrimethamine / Isao Ebisawa [and others].

The Wellcome Trust Thailand Major Overseas Programme : including SMRU and the Laos collaboration : report for the review panel vist, July 2009.

Temples and elephants : the narrative of a journey of exploration through Upper Siam and Lao / by Carl Bock.

"Krao", the "missing link" : a living proof of Darwin's theory of the descent of man : special lectures, 2.30, 5.30 & 9.30... : all should see her : [jungle illustration].

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The spirit catches you and you fall down : a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures / Anne Fadiman.

A group of men, women and child from Laos in both traditional and western dress representing an AIDS prevention advertisement. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.

Scientific annaul report for 2013 : Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit to Minister of Health, Government of the Lao PDR.

Numbered images and text including a family sitting talking, syringes with a red cross and a variety of condoms representing an advertisement from Laos for education about AIDS, the dangers of intravenous drug abuse and the importance of condoms and safe sex. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.

Health research in Thailand & Laos : the Wellcome Trust--Mahidol University--Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Programme / Wellcome Trust.

"Krao", the "missing link" : a living proof of Darwin's theory of the descent of man : special lectures, 2.30, 5.30 & 9.30... : all should see her : [seated illustration].

Malaria at Nam Ngum Dam construction site in Laos. I, Suppression with combinations of sulfonamides and pyrimethamine / Isao Ebisawa [and others].

The Wellcome Trust Thailand Major Overseas Programme : including SMRU and the Laos collaboration : report for the review panel vist, July 2009.

Temples and elephants : the narrative of a journey of exploration through Upper Siam and Lao / by Carl Bock.

"Krao", the "missing link" : a living proof of Darwin's theory of the descent of man : special lectures, 2.30, 5.30 & 9.30... : all should see her : [jungle illustration].

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