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The child whose town rejected vaccines
| Anna Faherty
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations
| Kate SummerscaleTim Robinson
Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.
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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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A bad atmosphere in the Balkans
| Natasha TripneyDragan Mujan
The citizens of Belgrade, one of the most polluted cities in Europe, are finally pushing back against the polluters, whose activities they’ve been encouraged to accept.
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Guerrilla public health
| Harry Shapiro
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.