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Three rows of silhouette figures against a cloudy sky representing an advertisement for World AIDS Day, 1st December 1994 for families with AIDS by the World Health Organization. Colour lithograph.

A blue sky with three large silhouette yellow figures enveloping four smaller red figures who stand behind two small [children] figures with their arms joined; an advertisement for World AIDS Day on 1 December 1994 by the Organisation Mondiale de la Santé. Colour lithograph by Marilyn Langfield.

A six-sided pamphlet advertising World AIDS Day, 1 December 1993, year of the family by the World Health Organization, Global Programme on AIDS [French version]; front page illustrates a group of men, women and children of various races stand on a pink circle representing the world with red spiked balls floating around them. Colour lithograph.

Part of the collection of pharmaceutical and medical antiques collected by Burkhard Reber and exhibited in Geneva in 1904. Photograph.

Du mal de Saint-Antoine a Belle-Idee : 2 siecles de psychiatrie a Geneve, 1800-2000 / Armand Brulhart ; preface par Pierre-Francois Unger, Bernard Gruson, Jacques Boesch.

World Health Organisation (WHO) buildings in the cities of Manila, Washington, Lyon, Copenhagen, Alexandria, Geneva, New Delhi and Brazzaville surrounded by a series of numbered images interspersed with the WHO logo and the words 'AIDS Stop SIDA' in the shape of a board game; an advertisement by the World Health Organisation. Colour lithograph by G. Padey and G. Auberson.

Anatomie d'une institution médicale : la Faculté de médecine de Genève (1876-1920) / Philip Rieder.

An HIV positive woman being comforted by her husband and children; advertisement by the World Health Organization for living positively with HIV. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

La médecine à Genève jusqu'à la fin du dix-huitième siècle : avec onze portraits / Léon Gautier ; avant-propos de Jean Starobinski ; introduction de Micheline Louis-Courvoisier.

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Régeste genevois ou répertoire chronologique et analytique des documents imprimés relatifs à la histoire de la ville et du diocèse de Genève avant l'année 1312.