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Trust me, I’m a patient

Artist Rachel Rowan Olive is an expert in the way her mental health condition affects her. Here she explains how it helps if doctors understand that.

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How ritual creates meaning

In a world that encourages us to quash our sense of wonder, ritual can help push away apathy and nurture life-enhancing creativity and imagination.

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Race, religion and the Black Madonna

Mystery and controversy surround the dark-skinned religious icon who represents the Virgin Mary throughout the Catholic world.

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Abandoning daydreams of a life without diabetes

After years of longing for a cure for her type 1 diabetes, Daisy Watson Shaw, partly due to medical advances in managing the condition, has reached a state of acceptance. Her wishes now are for greater understanding.

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  • Candle makers' workshop: interior view, process of making candles. Etching.
  • A man is making candles. Coloured lithograph.
  • Machinery used in the making of candles. Engraving by F. Appel.
  • Two women using machinery in the making of candles. Wood engraving by E. Bourdelin.
  • A skull, a skeleton, candles and other symbols of mortality. Engraving attributed to G. Altzenbach, [16--].
  • Rome: a crowd of revellers in the Corso celebrate the end of carnival by snuffing out candles. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1830.
  • Six kittens asleep in a canopied bed; a mouse and three candles in the foreground. Watercolour by G. Hope Tait, ca. 1900.
  • Six kittens in a canopied bed woken by a mouse; three candles in the foreground. Watercolour by G. Hope Tait, ca. 1900.
  • Charles James, seated at his desk with candles burning, contemplating suicide, holds a pistol to his mouth. Engraving by W. Skelton after C.R. Ryley after C. James.
  • Left, a man suffers the "torture of water"; left, a man tied to a rack has his armpits and the soles of his feet scorched by candles. Etching.
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