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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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‘Jessy’, a film about cerebral palsy

How the 1950s British film industry portrayed this disease.

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Notes upon arrival

In an effort to feel at home back in the country of her birth, poet Bhanu Kapil recognises the small revelations of nature in a chilly UK spring as a way to reconnect.

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Maria McKinney on ‘Sire’

All my grandparents were farmers; I grew up in the countryside surrounded by farms and helped neighbours herd sheep and cattle into the field. My body of work called ‘Sire’ looks at the genomics of modern cattle breeding.

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  • 4play (a negotiation skills workshop) : sex, is the sex you have the sex you want? : control, do you want more control in your sexual behaviour? : skills, do you have the skills for negotiation? : gay chat, group chat, live options ... / The Metro Centre, Greenwich.
  • Negotiations between two armies outside a castle. Gouache painting by an Indian artist, ca. 1800.
  • Île aux Bœufs, Loire: negotiations for the Pacification of Amboise in 1563 between the Queen Mother (regent for Charles IX), and the Huguenots, showing her receiving deputies at her tent. Etching attributed to J. Perrissin, ca. 1570.
  • A man with his two children consulting a herb doctor and negotiating a prescription. Wood engraving.
  • The Lachine Rapids, St. Lawrence River, Canada: a paddle steamer negotiates the waters. Photograph by Notman & Sandham, 1878.
  • The ascent of Mont Blanc by John Auldjo's party in 1827: the party negotiating a cliff. Lithograph after J. Auldjo, 1828.
  • The female symbol forming part of the words 'negotiate'; an advertisement for the National Aids Helpline by the Liverpool Health Promotion Unit. Colour lithograph, 1992.
  • Use your big head, use condoms : hats are for your big head, condoms for your small, negotiate, play it safe you will have a ball : call card / designed and produced by Health First.
  • Use your big head, use condoms : hats are for your big head, condoms for your small, negotiate, play it safe you will have a ball : call card / designed and produced by Health First.
  • Jacob is taken to the cave in the field of Machpelah by a mournful procession; he wants to die in the spot bought by Abraham. Etching by L. du Guernier after L. Chéron.
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