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The ambivalence of air

Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.

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Are doctors medical detectives?

Do doctors really identify medical conditions in the same way that detectives solve crimes? Neurologist Jules Montague makes her diagnosis.

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Cowpox, Covid-19 and Jenner’s vaccination legacy

The well-known story of vaccination pioneer Edward Jenner has at its heart his drive to make vaccines free of charge and available to all. Now his principles extend to the global campaign for a people’s patent-free vaccine for Covid-19.

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How shame makes us sick

The fight-or-flight response can have long-term consequences for our bodies if left unchecked. Lucia Osborne-Crowley investigates how shame and trauma are connected, and how both can lead to chronic ill health.

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  • Hanley, Stoke & Fenton Joint Infectious Diseases Hospital, Staffordshire: floor plan. Photoprint, 1902.
  • Charcot's disease of the hip joint
  • Diseases of the joints
  • Pathological and surgical observations on diseases of the joints / [Sir Benjamin C. Brodie].
  • Diseases of the hip, knee, and ankle joints and their treatment by a new and efficient method / by Hugh Owen Thomas.
  • Diseases of the hip, knee, and ankle joints and their treatment by a new and efficient method / by Hugh Owen Thomas.
  • Diseases of the hip, knee, and ankle, joints, with their deformities, treated by a new and efficient method / by Hugh Owen Thomas.
  • Diseases of the hip, knee, and ankle, joints, with their deformities, treated by a new and efficient method / by Hugh Owen Thomas.
  • Several examples of diseased joints (gout), numbered for key. Coloured lithograph by Batelli after Ferdinando Ferrari, c. 1843.
  • Pelvis of E. Welch, showing disease of right hip and dislocaton of left hip. Radiograph, 1900/1904.
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