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The anatomy of a brain dissection
| Moheb CostandiBenjamin Gilbert
Dissecting the brain after death not only helps confirm a diagnosis, but it can also teach us so much more about the symptoms and causes of brain diseases and how to treat them.
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- Book extract
Your gut’s instincts
| Elsa RichardsonSteven Pocock
Cultural historian Elsa Richardson explores the stomach’s influence over our emotions, and why trusting your gut is often good advice.
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What is hysteria?
| Sarah Jaffray
Hysteria has long been associated with fanciful myths, but its history reveals how it has been used to control women’s behaviour and bodies
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Yoga gets physical
| Lalita Kaplish
Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.
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The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria
| Natasha Ruiz-GómezKathleen Arundell
A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.