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The bishop’s profitable sex workers
| Dr Kate Lister
How did the Church rake in revenue from 14th-century sex regulations? Kate Lister explores a bishop’s lucrative rulebook.
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Diagnosing OCD in the past
| Joanne EdgeThomas S G Farnetti
Mining the writings of and about famous historical figures, retrospective psychologists try to diagnose their mental health problems. But, inevitably, partial evidence is open to misinterpretation.
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The ‘undesirable epileptic’
| Aparna NairTracy Satchwill
Abused in her marriage for being 'a sick woman', Aparna Nair looked to history to make sense of the response to her epilepsy. She discovered how centuries of fear and discrimination were often endorsed by science and legislation.