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The building as tool of healing
| Emily Sargent
When we’re ill, it’s not just medical care that helps to treat us. Architects have discovered that the right environment can play an important part too.
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
| Anna Faherty
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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Navigating in a connected world
| Alex LeeIan Treherne
Alex Lee ponders the promising ideas, stalled projects and pricey gadgets that aim to help visually impaired people get out and about. But it seems that an actual human could be the essential ingredient.
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An insider’s view of Play Well
| Gwendolyn SmithSteven Pocock
Curator Shamita Sharmacharja offers behind-the-scenes insights into an exhibition about the serious business of play.
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The poor child’s nurse
| Briony Hudson
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.