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The healing power of the physic garden
| Iona Glen
Having experienced the healing power of plants and gardens, Iona Glen goes in search of present-day “physic gardens” and their origins in history.
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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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- Book extract
Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
| Aarathi Prasad
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
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How slums make people sick
| Emily Sargent
A newly gentrified corner of Bermondsey leaves little clue to its less salubrious history. But a few intrepid writers recorded the details of existence in one of London’s most squalid slums.