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- Photo story
- Photo story
Beautiful bedding and how to die well
| Poppy NashSteven Pocock
When you are unwell, your bed can be both a refuge and a prison. Discover how artist Poppy Nash created a bed-centred artwork inspired by her own chronic illness and depictions of ill health from history.
- Article
- Article
The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
| Anna Faherty
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
- Article
- Article
When you don’t belong, you drink
| Tanya PerdikouNaomi Vona
In the third part of her exploration of belonging, Tanya Perdikou unpicks the addictions that have shaped her past and uncovers the connections that make recovery possible.
- Article
- Article
How hospital care fails disabled bodies
| Jamie HaleCamilla Greenwell
Hospitals aim to make sick people well. But if the sick person is also disabled, the unbending nature of monolithic hospital systems can easily worsen the situation. Here Jamie Hale writes from painful personal experience.