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Born in the NHS

Despite underfunding, strikes and scandals, the first two decades of the 2000s has seen the British people’s love of and loyalty to the NHS soar.

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Sniffing glue and Scientology in the DrugScope archive

Academics on hallucinogenics, kids sniffing glue, and Scientologists recruiting drug users keen to kick the habit. Delve into Wellcome’s recently acquired DrugScope archive.

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Our Covid complicity

Athena Stevens thought she had a cold that she tried to ignore, but it turned out to be Covid-19. Here she reflects on how we have all put ourselves and others at risk with the choices we’ve made during this pandemic.

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Kathryn Mannix’s prescription for writing

The Wellcome Book Prize shortlisted author of ‘With the End in Mind’ answers five questions on health, inspiration and storytelling.

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  • Rope around horse to prevent it from kicking
  • A hole in wall of a stable due to kicking
  • A young Inca man kicking a balance in which the Spanish conquistadors are weighing gold. Etching by A.C.F. Villerey after N. Vallain.
  • A woman picking a tennis ball, emptying a bucket of water, kicking, holding a pole, walking and lifting a pair of dumb-bells. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A woman picking a tennis ball, emptying a bucket of water, kicking, holding a pole, walking and lifting a pair of dumb-bells. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A toddler in a walking frame is kicking bottles of sedatives, representing the preference for clean bottle-feeding over pharmaceutical sedatives for infants. Colour process print after F. Poulbot.
  • The members of a rich family are embroiled in a fight, the husband is kicking the wife, who in turn is about to hit him with the keys, the rest of the household, including children and animals, follows suit; representing Discord. Engraving by C. de Passe after M. de Vos.
  • A mule kicks its hind legs. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • An ossified muscle following a kick from a horse. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • Understand your kick chart / produced by midwives on the W.N.B. 998 course in Mid-Glamorgan.
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