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The family food of a kebab van man

Melek Erdal celebrates the physical and mental resilience of her father Yusuf, forged by isolation and dislocation, and reinforced by the distinctive cuisine of his home country, Turkey.

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Being trans in the world of sex work

Unstable. Predatory. Risk takers. Dr Adrienne Macartney sheds stark light on the hostile and negative assumptions faced by trans sex workers.

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The rise and fall of a medical mesmerist

Uncover the fascinating story of the doctor who popularised hypnotism as a medical technique, and could name Dickens among his famous friends.

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The meanings of hurt

In the early modern period, gruesome incidents of self-castration and other types of self-injury garnished the literature of the time. Alanna Skuse explores the messages these wounds conveyed.

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  • An experimental dissertation on the chemical and medical properties of the nicotiana tabacum of Linnaeus, commonly known by the name of tobacco / By Edward Brailsford.
  • Letter to Lister from University of Edinburgh, 1878
  • A skeletal figure surveying three doctors around a cauldron, a parody of Macbeth and the three witches; promoting James Morison's alternative medicines. Lithograph.
  • A skeletal figure surveying three doctors around a cauldron, a parody of Macbeth and the three witches; promoting James Morison's alternative medicines. Lithograph.
  • Auguste Nélaton. Wood engraving by W.B. after Ch. Reutlinger.
  • John Pordage. Line engraving after W. Faithorne.
  • Chinese woodcut, Famous medical figures: Sun Simiao
  • Fifteen professors at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Colour process print after C. Miksch, 1923.
  • Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count von Rumford. Mezzotint by J. R. Smith, 1801, after himself.
  • A group of vaccinators leading a small-pocked woman form a procession past a university, with Death waving his scythe behind them; the members of the university doze in the foreground; attributing the decline of Germany in 19th century to vaccination and syphilis. Lithograph after C.G.G. Nittinger, 1856.
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