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Meredith Wadman’s prescription for writing
| Jennifer Trent Staves
The Wellcome Book Prize shortlisted author of ‘The Vaccine Race’ answers five questions on health, inspiration and storytelling.
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Native Americans and the dehumanising force of the photograph
| Allison C Meier
In the second part of Native Americans through the 19th-century lens, we delve deeper into the ambivalent messages within the images.
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Spanish flu and the depiction of disease
| Allison C Meier
The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 killed many millions more than World War I did. Find out why contemporary artistic depictions of its devastating impact are so rare.
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Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
| Mark Honigsbaum
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.