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Confession as therapy in the Middle Ages

The line between confession and counselling has been blurred for centuries.

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The ancient doctors who refused payment

The NHS might only be 70 years old, but the idea of free healthcare goes back to Ancient Greece, when devout doctors provided their services without charge.

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We who can’t believe

Unless she falls to the floor unconscious, Anne Boyer has always ignored signs of illness. Cancer, however, made her face her fallibility.

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Spanish flu and the depiction of disease

The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 killed many millions more than World War I did. Find out why contemporary artistic depictions of its devastating impact are so rare.

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  • A deathbed scene. Etching.
  • Charles Dickens on his deathbed. Halftone, 1870.
  • George Washington on his deathbed. Coloured wood engraving.
  • A Hanoverian prince on his deathbed. Gouache, 1794 (?).
  • A dead man, wearing robes, lying on his deathbed. Photograph.
  • A man on his deathbed. Drawing attributed to H.P. Bone.
  • Armand Trousseau on his deathbed. Red chalk drawing by G. Dieulafoy, 1867.
  • Karl Pavlovich Bri︠u︡llov (Bryullov) on his deathbed. Lithograph by C. Cornienti, 1852.
  • The deathbed of the Duke of Orleans in Paris in 1842. Engraving, 1842.
  • Deathbed of a nobleman or king surrounded by mourners and a bishop. Engraving.
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