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Bloody capitalism and the cash flow of the menstrual cycle

Once they thrived on taboos and shame. Now period-product manufacturers are finding new ways to flourish in this era of period activism – but products aren’t the end of the story.

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Audrey and her family

In working on Audrey Amiss’s archive, Elena is getting closer to understanding her. But the way her niece and nephew remember Audrey adds essential detail to the picture.

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The blood notebooks

Novelist Rupert Thomson explores his unusual behaviour during a time of self-imposed isolation.

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The evil eye and social anxiety

The ‘look’ of the evil eye is believed to bring bad luck, illness or even death. This ancient curse might be deliberate, inflicted with an envious glare, or it could be accidental, the result of undue attention or excessive praise.

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  • Cupping glasses.
  • Therapeutics: Cupping vessel.
  • Cupping Operation performed a woman
  • Plate 28. Cupping devices for the arm and leg.
  • Cupping, using a horn placed on the patient's back, Africa. Photograph by J. Uribe, 1920/1940.
  • Kaffir medicine man cupping a patient
  • Chinese woodcut: Medical instrument -- cupping vessel
  • Woodcut showing cupping of patient's back, 1483
  • Indian cupping horns of horn and copper
  • A surgeon preparing to let blood by cupping, his apprentice warming the cupping glass. Oil painting attributed to Jan Baptist Lambrechts.
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