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Sickness & Health
Medicine has always sought to understand illness and maintain wellbeing.
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Bold poster advertising pills’ efficacy against rheumatic diseases
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Quick notes on the malaria parasite
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Interactive on the lifecycle of HIV
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1970s health education drama about an overweight man
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AIDS education for Deaf people
Poster featuring Keith Haring's STOP AIDS image
Ugandan poster stressing correct diagnosis
Photograph of man modelling mosquito headnet
Advert claiming to safely remove superfluous fat
Packaging for drug showing an astronaut in space
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Early film of multiplying bacteria
1941 War Office warning
Photograph of mosquito Anopheles stephensi in flight
Drawing of sewer water during London's 1854 epidemic
1830s satire on the horrors of London's water
Transmission electron micrograph image
Watercolour by George Kirtland
Artwork using dead mosquitoes
Six different stages in the life of a man infected with malaria
Interactive showing the life cycle of the malaria parasite
1944 US Army film about the dangers of contracting malaria
Dr Sanjoy Bhattacharya on beliefs and treatments associated with malaria
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1953 film showing dissection of a mosquito for malaria parasite
Quick notes on the global problem of malaria
Quick notes on the impact of malaria parasites on the body
How we will react to new epidemics
How the pandemic of 1918 was linked to World War I
How people avoided plague before they knew its real cause
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Vicki Swinden discusses weight and self-image
Wall relief depicting an obese man