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Providing care across languages
| Niyoshi ShahRanganath Krishnamani
When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.
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Eels and feels
| Ruth Garde
For Georgian Londoners, the allure of electric animals was both intellectual and sensual.
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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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Aphasia and drawing elephants
| Thomas Parkinson
When Thomas Parkinson investigated the history of “speech science”, he discovered an unexpected link between empire, elephants and aphasia.
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Vivekananda’s journey
| Lalita Kaplish
How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.