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Losing touch

In these pandemic times, when touch has become taboo, Agnese Reginaldo explores the importance of physical contact to our wellbeing.

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Healing hard-working hands

The names we use to describe different hand injuries tell us about history, gender and class. Occupational therapist María Cristina Jiménez explores those injuries, and the changing ways we talk about them.

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A doctor, his community and coronavirus

Reflecting on his experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic, GP Gavin Francis vividly recalls a home visit to a man stricken with breathing difficulties.

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The desire for lighter skin

Discover why some Black people feel more attractive with lighter skin. Ngunan Adamu speaks to three women who explain how they got hooked on skin bleaching.

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  • Elbow joint with deposits of urate of soda
  • Elbow showing the later stages of pemphigus vegetans
  • Elbow of a patient with an intermuscular synovial cyst
  • Elbow of a patient with an intermuscular synovial cyst
  • Elbow joint deformed by osteo-arthitis in a patient with tabes dorsalis
  • Gouty tophi on the elbow
  • Nerve movement in forearm, elbow extension, ultrasound
  • Nerve movement in forearm, elbow extension, ultrasound
  • The muscles of the raised left arm, elbow and hand(right); bones of the elbow (left). Red chalk drawing, 17th century.
  • Subcutaneous nodules affecting the knuckles, ears and elbow
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