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Patient power

Needle, a small London-based group, led the early fight for patient rights. Leona Letts reveals how they championed giving ...
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What’s on

'Finger Talk' is a new British Sign Language (BSL) artwork by Cathy Mager that invites you to enter a space shaped by deaf perspectives.
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Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an Inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring ...

This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London. This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be ...
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The fall of Babylon; Cyrus the Great defeating the Chaldean army. Mezzotint by J. Martin, 1831, after himself, 1819.

Bible. O.T. Isaiah 13-14. Jeremiah 50-1. A large green serpent is coiled around a pillar in the centre. It may be the serpent/dragon mentioned in the apocryphal 'Bel and the Dragon', which was ...
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Bartholomaeus de Ripa Romea, De lapidibus, and other texts

Bartholomaeus de Ripa Romea, De lapidibus, and other texts Date: Mid 14th Century Reference: MS.116 ...
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Reports of the Committee of Management and Medical Director for 1932 / Papworth Village Settlement.

Reports of the Committee of Management and Medical Director for 1932 / Papworth Village Settlement.Papworth Village Settlement (Cambridge, England) ...
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Artists, activism and AIDS

Many artists in the 1980s and 1990s turned their art into activism to raise awareness of the emerging AIDS epidemic. These public health posters from around the world show how they creatively ...
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Intelligence testing, race and eugenics

show credit information for image 'Legacies of eugenics in school' Legacies of eugenics in school. © Gergo Varga (varrgo.com) for Wellcome Collection. When A-level ...
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The history of brainwashing

In 1950, an American journalist popularised the term ‘brainwashing’, arguing that a new amalgam of technology, medicine and ideology was allowing an onslaught on people’s minds. In this abridged ...
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Sex work, stigma and whorephobia

show credit information for image 'Sex work, stigma and whorephobia' Sex work, stigma and whorephobia. © Jessa Fairbrother for Wellcome Collection. Some years ago ...
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Bloody capitalism and the cash flow of the menstrual cycle

In recent years period activism has hit the global headlines, busting taboos, driving public policy, and prompting companies to create new products. In some countries, including the US, UK, Canada, ...
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The colonial roots of our collections, and our response

Wellcome Collection is built on collections assembled by Sir Henry Wellcome. In the early 20th century Wellcome founded a private historical medical museum closely linked with his pharmaceutical ...