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Keeping death close

Scattering her father’s ashes, Lauren Entwistle found herself longing for something physical that proved he once was a living, breathing person. Here she reflects on the objects that help us to grieve and remember.

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Finding the words to talk about emptiness

Shored up by a diagnosis and medication, Cassie Doney tried to find out more about the profound feeling of emptiness they were experiencing. But research is thin on the ground.

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Writing back to authority

As she cuts up old doctors’ letters and uses them to compose absurd poems, Caroline Butterwick reflects on the catharsis of creation and proposes writing as a way to take back control.

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How stories bring us together

Elif Shafak considers how hard it is to be heard in our divided world, but how listening can nurture wisdom, connection and empathy.

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  • Aesculapius pays tribute to Edward Jenner for introducing vaccination. Etching by J. Gerstner after I.J. Weidlich, 1801.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin). Etching.
  • A girl setting off on a walk along a country road, leaving behind cigarette butts, cigarettes and smoke-rings; representing the smoke-free status of a group of school students. Colour lithograph for Stivoro (Stichting Volksgezondheid en Roken), ca. 2000.
  • Prevention and treatment of syphilis and gonorrhoea. Colour lithograph, ca. 1950.
  • An apple that has been bitten into is tied up with a knotted rope to prevent further bites; representing precautions against AIDS. Colour lithograph after R. Vlachová, 1993.
  • An apple that has been bitten into is tied up with a knotted rope to prevent further bites; representing precautions against AIDS. Colour lithograph after R. Vlachová, 1993.
  • A white liver bird and messages to people in Liverpool appealing for volunteers to help the campaign for chest x-rays for diagnosis of tuberculosis. Colour lithograph, 1959.
  • Prevention of venereal diseases: the feet of a man standing on the letters VD on a blue ground are approached by the feet of a woman who places the toes of one foot on the letters VD. Colour lithograph, ca. 1964.
  • Prevention and treatment of syphilis and gonorrhoea, and their effect on the children of people infected. Colour lithograph, ca. 1950.
  • Two people walking towards each other with their arms outstretched; representing solidarity with AIDS victims on World AIDS day. Colour lithograph, 199-.
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