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Care, creativity and a connected world
| Christine Ro
Find out about the challenges Wellcome Collection has faced during the last very demanding year.
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Close encounters of the spiritualist kind
| Kate WilkinsonThomas S G Farnetti
When it comes to practical and emotional advice, Daphne heeds the words of her lost loved ones. Find out how a spiritualist medium helps her stay in touch.
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How I cured my fear of vomiting
| Alex BruceSteven Pocock
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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The meanings of hurt
| Alanna SkuseSteven Pocock
In the early modern period, gruesome incidents of self-castration and other types of self-injury garnished the literature of the time. Alanna Skuse explores the messages these wounds conveyed.
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Eating their own kind
In his grisly history of cannibalism, zoologist Bill Schutt asks what drives an animal to feast on its own flesh and blood.