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  • Book extract

Sockets and stumps

Historian Emily Mayhew has met soldiers who have survived the seemingly unsurvivable. Here, she explores the part prosthetics play in the process of military rehabilitation.

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A dispatch from the frontiers of man and machine

Harry Parker’s life changed overnight when he stepped on a bomb and lost his legs. He argues that being an amputee doesn’t make him an outlier; we are all hybrid.

  • Article

Equality in genetics

Genetic counsellor Sasha Henriques harnessed her energy and resolve to tackle the racial biases she saw in her profession – with positive and promising results.

  • Photo story

Portraits, from a distance

Join photographer Michelle Sank on her daily walk around Exeter. Strength, frustration, resilience and eccentricity all show in these candid images portraying life under the constraints of coronavirus lockdown.

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  • Abdur Rahaman, Ameer of Afghanistan.
  • Shooting skirmish below mountains, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
  • Cavalry passing mountain river, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
  • Cavalry drill in the mountains, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
  • Walled city with lone horseman, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
  • Old World leishmaniasis focus: Kabul , Afghanistan
  • Old World leishmaniasis focus: Kabul in Afghanistan
  • Cavalry marching through a mountain river, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
  • Transporting artillery through a mountain pass, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
  • Two women with water vessels at a well, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
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