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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 freedom to provoke

Jamie Hale talks to performer and director Emma Selwyn about the joy of creating work that celebrates, rather than suppresses, autistic behaviours.

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Doris Day blows against

Dodie Bellamy remembers a heady summer watching Doris Day grimace and gust in vintage movies, her expressive exhalations changing her onscreen world with a puff.

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Air of threat

Novelist Chloe Aridjis vividly describes the suffocating atmosphere of Mexico City, as a combination of topography, crowded neighbourhoods, and reckless political diktats create a downward spiral.

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  • Anatomical Fugitive sheet. Adam and Eve Type. Male. Shows the layers. With flap raised.
  • A female flap anatomy fugitive sheet, with layered flaps lifted to reveal the anatomy of the thorax and abdomen. Photograph of an engraving, 1683.
  • A stone: superimposed flap on the plate of the interior of the chapel of Saint Mary Magdalen, on Mount Verna. Engraving attributed to D. Falcini after J. Ligozzi, ca. 1612.
  • Woodcut, female figue with moveable flaps,
  • Methods of arranging skin flaps after mastectomy operations (plate 2)
  • Methods of arranging skin flaps after mastectomy operations (plate 1)
  • Methods of arranging skin flaps after mastectomy operations (plate 3)
  • Muscles of the leg and foot: front view. Ink and watercolour with laminated flaps, 18--.
  • Muscles of the leg and foot: side view. Ink and watercolour with laminated flaps, 18--.
  • Muscles of the leg and foot: side view. Ink and watercolour with laminated flaps, 18--.
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