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Surviving the storm of postnatal depression

Emma Jane Unsworth lays bare the despair of postnatal depression and shares her route to recovery.

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Reassuring ghosts and haunted houses

Explore the perversely comforting appeal of a ghost in the house.

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Guerrilla public health

From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.

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Between sickness and health

In early 2020, the subject Will Rees was studying – imaginary illnesses – took on a new relevance as everyone anxiously scanned themselves for Covid symptoms each day. But this kind of self-scrutiny is nothing new, as he reveals.

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  • Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science: men in a conference room. Photograph, c. 1933.
  • The Wellcome Foundation Ltd., Euston Road, London: a temporary boardroom in the west block of Friends House, with a view of the east side of the Wellcome Building in the background. Photograph, c. 1932.
  • Royal College of Physicians, Warwick Lane, London: the interior of the Hall, during the examination of a candidate. Coloured aquatint by J. Bluck after T. Rowlandson and A. C. Pugin, 1808.
  • Royal Society, Crane Court, off Fleet Street, London: a meeting in progress, with Isaac Newton in the chair. Wood engraving by J. Quartley after [J.M.L.R.], 1883.
  • Royal Society, Crane Court, off Fleet Street, London: a meeting in progress, with Isaac Newton in the chair. Wood engraving by J. Quartley after [J.M.L.R.], 1883.
  • Royal College of Physicians, Warwick Lane, London: the interior of the Hall, during the examination of a candidate. Coloured aquatint by J. Bluck after T. Rowlandson and A. C. Pugin, 1808.
  • Thomas Dromgoole speaking at a meeting of the Catholic Board in Dublin; represented as Doctor Drum "letting the cat out of the bag". Coloured etching, 1813.
  • Robert Koch reading his address to a conference at St. James's Hall, Piccadilly. Gouache by F.C. Dickinson, 1901.
  • A committee of English Nonconformists of the Commonwealth era receiving petitions from people accused of bestiality (a woman with a dog and a man with a horse); representing the danger that Puritanism might be revived in 1680 and seize power in Great Britain. Engraving after Sir R. Lestrange, 1680.
  • A mother appeals to a tuberculosis nurse to save her baby son from tuberculosis. Colour lithograph by N. Rettroni [? name indistinct], 1932.
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