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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
| Sita Reddy
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
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Why the world needs collectors
| Anna Faherty
Those who collect play an important role as “facilitators of curiosity”, says Anna Faherty.
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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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Diagnosing OCD in the past
| Joanne EdgeThomas S G Farnetti
Mining the writings of and about famous historical figures, retrospective psychologists try to diagnose their mental health problems. But, inevitably, partial evidence is open to misinterpretation.