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Self-obsessing in the age of selfies
| Stevyn Colgan
The tiny, joyful spark of a social media ‘like’ can lead to a damaging obsession. Find out how far people will go when their phone addiction gets the upper hand.
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The leukaemia diagnosis I didn’t see coming
| Hannah Partos
Treatment for leukaemia kept journalist Hannah Partos in isolation, like the female prisoner whose image inspired her to write this piece.
- Book extract
- Book extract
A dispatch from the frontiers of man and machine
| Harry ParkerSteven Pocock
Harry Parker’s life changed overnight when he stepped on a bomb and lost his legs. He argues that being an amputee doesn’t make him an outlier; we are all hybrid.
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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.