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Yoga gets physical
| Lalita Kaplish
Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.
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The quest to breed gifted children
| Anna Faherty
If you had the chance, would you choose a genius baby?
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Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug
| Douglas SmallBenjamin Gilbert
Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.
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Coleridge’s hypochondria
| Mike JayNaki Narh
An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.
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Sex in graphic novels
| Stephen Lowther
Sex and sexuality have long been explored in the history of the graphic novel.
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Permission to recover
| Gavin FrancisSteven Pocock
When it comes to illness, sometimes the end is just the beginning. Gavin Francis argues why being given permission to recover is so important.