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My mother, and metaphors of a pandemic
| Sandy Di YuSteven Pocock
A pandemic. Two members of one family, living thousands of miles apart. And months of calls and messages that helped them grow closer.
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Witches
| Helen FosterEast Midlands Oral History ArchiveAsma Istwani
Many of the women persecuted as witches in the 16th-century “witch craze” were over 50 and exhibited signs of menopause. Helen Foster suggests that the stigma of the wicked witch still affects older women and how they deal with menopause.
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Does mass media pave the way to fascism?
| Charlie WilliamsSarah MarksDaniel Pick
In the aftermath of World War II, psychoanalysts found the psychological roots of authoritarianism closer to home than was comfortable.
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The stranger who started an epidemic
| Anna Faherty
New Orleans, 1853. James McGuigan arrives in the port city and succumbs to yellow fever.
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Healthy scepticism
| Caitjan GaintyAgnes Arnold-ForsterPaul AddaeFranklyn Rodgers
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.