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Ancestry, privacy and the family tree

Wanting to find out more about her Jamaican grandfather, Tanya Perdikou contemplates DNA testing. But first she has to consider the potential impact of unexpected results.

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Breaking the rules of online dating

Artists are taking on the trolls of Tinder and the gremlins of Grindr to question the limits of online dating.

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Why even plastic surgery can’t hide you from facial recognition

Once upon a time, plastic surgery allowed a few notorious criminals to evade the law. But today, sophisticated facial-recognition technology has turned dreams of anonymity to dust.

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Mary Bishop and the surveillant gaze

Writer and artist Rose Ruane explores the paintings of Mary Bishop, created during a 30-year stay in a psychiatric hospital, which speak of constant medical surveillance and censorious self-examination.

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  • No time for the clinic? : Do you live in the borough of Greenwich? Are you a gay or bisexual man? Then get tested in the privacy of your own home : free rapid testing in your home with results in 20 minutes : Chlamydia and gonorrhoea tests included / The Metro Centre.
  • No time for the clinic? : Do you live in the borough of Greenwich? Are you a gay or bisexual man? Then get tested in the privacy of your own home : free rapid testing in your home with results in 20 minutes : Chlamydia and gonorrhoea tests included / The Metro Centre.
  • An embarrassed female patient is caught undressed by a leering medical assistant. Colourprocess print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A physician administering a clyster to an embarrassed woman who hides her self and presents her behind through a window, female friends observe the scene. Photograph after a stone bas-relief in Bruges archaeological museum.
  • A patient exposes her breasts to a physician and asks if a physician is not a little like a confessor: the doctor exclaims that he hopes she does not show herself like that to her confessor. Process print afterJ-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • An old gallant is hosed down by two interfering young men; thus preventing any over-heating of the old lecher's heart. Coloured lithograph by F.S. Bach.
  • Roger Bacon conducting an alchemical experiment in a vaulted cloister. Etching by J. Nasmyth, 1845.
  • Writing up patient notes: confidentiality rights for tuberculosis patients in Kenya. Colour lithograph by KAPTLD, 2009.
  • HeLa cells, immortal human epithelial cancer cell line, SEM
  • HeLa cells, immortal human epithelial cancer cell line, SEM
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