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Healing hard-working hands
| María Cristina JimenezLouise Hinman
The names we use to describe different hand injuries tell us about history, gender and class. Occupational therapist María Cristina Jiménez explores those injuries, and the changing ways we talk about them.
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How writing helps me manage schizophrenia
| Erica Crompton
For Erica Crompton, writing is much more than a career. It’s an essential component of her mental health toolkit.
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Coleridge’s hypochondria
| Mike JayNaki Narh
An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.
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The solidarity of sickness
| Sinéad GleesonCamilla Greenwell
Visiting an injured friend in hospital prompts writer Sinéad Gleeson to reflect on the instant rapport forged between compatriots in the kingdom of the sick.