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Providing care across languages

When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.

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We who can’t believe

Unless she falls to the floor unconscious, Anne Boyer has always ignored signs of illness. Cancer, however, made her face her fallibility.

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How an animation educated the army

In a 1940s cartoon intended to persuade US troops to take malaria medication, the makers pitted a clodhopping soldier against a wily mosquito. If only Private SNAFU had followed the government’s advice.

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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life

The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.

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  • A dentist in his surgery with patient at Camp Douglas. Pen drawing by C.W. Law, 1862.
  • A mobile health unit in Pennsylvania: a group of children with their mothers await treatment from the unit's health practitioners. Photograph, 1920/1930?.
  • A mobile health unit in Pennsylvania: health practitioners are shown examining children outdoors, with the unit's van seen in the background. Photograph, 1920/1930?.
  • A mobile health unit, parked in a Pennsylvania field: patients are shown awaiting treatment by the unit's health practitioners. Photograph, 1920/1930?.
  • A mobile health unit, parked in a Pennsylvania field: women and their children are shown receiving treatment from the unit's health practitioners. Photograph, 1920/1930?.
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