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How the mental health system fails Black people

Accessing mental healthcare as a Black woman can be a challenging experience. Rianna Walcott shares her story, alongside those of three other women, to reveal the barriers she faced.

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The meanings of hurt

In the early modern period, gruesome incidents of self-castration and other types of self-injury garnished the literature of the time. Alanna Skuse explores the messages these wounds conveyed.

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The healing power of breathing

The healing powers of different breathing methods are said to help with a range of health challenges, from asthma to PTSD. Effie Webb traces their spiritual origins and explores the modern proliferation of breathwork therapies.

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Father of the house

Stuart Evers thought he’d shaken off his family’s rigid definition of masculinity. But when he became a dad, those buried patriarchal ideas made an unexpected return.

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  • Temple of Aesculapius at Cos, with a key to the buildings and a fragment of the Stoa. Oil painting by R. Caton, ca. 1906.
  • Temple of Aesculapius at Cos, with a key to the buildings and a fragment of the Stoa. Oil painting by R. Caton, ca. 1906.
  • Temple of Aesculapius at Cos, with a key to the buildings and a fragment of the Stoa. Oil painting by R. Caton, ca. 1906.
  • Temple of Aesculapius at Cos, with a key to the buildings and a fragment of the Stoa. Oil painting by R. Caton, ca. 1906.
  • Temple of Aesculapius at Cos, with a key to the buildings and a fragment of the Stoa. Oil painting by R. Caton, ca. 1906.
  • Temple of Aesculapius at Cos, with a key to the buildings and a fragment of the Stoa. Oil painting by R. Caton, ca. 1906.
  • A heavily pregnant woman walking a road littered with risks to her death: reducing risks of child birth in Uganda. Colour lithograph by the Ministry of Health, ca. 1998.
  • A heavily pregnant woman walking a road littered with risks to her death: reducing risks of child birth in Uganda. Colour lithograph by the Ministry of Health, ca. 1998.
  • A patient anonymised by hospital life. Colour giclée print by Emily Brown, 2004.
  • A patient anonymised by hospital life. Colour giclée print by Emily Brown, 2004.
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