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When depression is worse than physical illness

Chronic physical illnesses can be accompanied by troubling depressive symptoms. Elly Aylwin-Foster urges doctors to treat every aspect of her condition with the same care.

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The healing power of breathing

The healing powers of different breathing methods are said to help with a range of health challenges, from asthma to PTSD. Effie Webb traces their spiritual origins and explores the modern proliferation of breathwork therapies.

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How can we prevent violence?

Evidence shows that strategies to prevent some types of violence can be very effective, while other, less well-acknowledged forms continue unabated. But hope can still guide us into a more peaceful future.

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Guerrilla public health

From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.

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  • Sir Michael Foster. Photogravure after the Hon. John Collier.
  • Sir Michael Foster. Photogravure after the Hon. John Collier.
  • Astley's halt or foot-rot mixture : poison!... / prepared by John Astley, (late H.J. Foster).
  • Fellows of the Royal Society: Sir John Evans, bust of Sir Isaac Newton, Lord Kelvin, R.B. Clifton, G.G. Stokes, Sir Michael Foster, Lord Lister, Arthur W. Rucker, Sir J.D. Hooker, Sir William Huggins, Sir W.T. Thiselton Dyer. Photograph by Mayall.
  • Fellows of the Royal Society: Sir John Evans, bust of Sir Isaac Newton, Lord Kelvin, R.B. Clifton, G.G. Stokes, Sir Michael Foster, Lord Lister, Arthur W. Rucker, Sir J.D. Hooker, Sir William Huggins, Sir W.T. Thiselton Dyer. Photograph by Mayall.
  • Facade elevation of the Wesleyan Day schools, Bristol. Line engraving by J.R. Jobbins after Foster & Wood.
  • Ether and chloroform : their employment in surgery, dentistry, midwifery, therapeutics, etc / by J.F.B. Flagg.
  • Spadacrene Anglica. Or, the English spaw-fountaine. Being a briefe treatise of the acide, or tart fountaine in the Forest of Knaresborow, in the West-Riding of ... Yorkshire. As also a relation of other medicinall waters in the said forest ... / [Edmund Deane].
  • Spadacrene Anglica. Or, the English spaw-fountaine. Being a briefe treatise of the acide, or tart fountaine in the Forest of Knaresborow, in the West-Riding of ... Yorkshire. As also a relation of other medicinall waters in the said forest ... / [Edmund Deane].
  • Spadacrene Anglica. Or, the English spaw-fountaine. Being a briefe treatise of the acide, or tart fountaine in the Forest of Knaresborow, in the West-Riding of ... Yorkshire. As also a relation of other medicinall waters in the said forest ... / [Edmund Deane].
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