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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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Tracing the toxic story of tear gas
| Imani Jacqueline BrownFungai Marima
Investigating tear gas – from factory to Black Lives Matter protest – Imani Jacqueline Brown uncovers a toxic legacy where pollution, violence and racism are intimately entwined.
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The tradesman who confronted the pestilence
| Anna Faherty
The City of London, 1665. As the Great Plague hits the capital, John New faces a deadly dilemma.
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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.