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Obesity and Britain’s boys

Six young men and six experiences of being overweight. Find out how these boys and their loved ones feel about this stigmatising issue.

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Between sickness and health

In early 2020, the subject Will Rees was studying – imaginary illnesses – took on a new relevance as everyone anxiously scanned themselves for Covid symptoms each day. But this kind of self-scrutiny is nothing new, as he reveals.

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Healthy scepticism

Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.

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Aphasia and drawing elephants

When Thomas Parkinson investigated the history of “speech science”, he discovered an unexpected link between empire, elephants and aphasia.

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  • I feel safer using condoms : find out what else you can do to protect yourself from HIV and other STIs... : call African AIDS Helpline, 0800 0967 500 : it's free, confidential, safe to call / produced by Black Health Agency, NAHIP, NHS.
  • Be a man, use a condom : find out what else you can do to protect yourself from HIV and other STIs... : call African AIDS Helpline, 0800 0967 500 : it's free, confidential, safe to call / produced by Black Health Agency, NAHIP, NHS.
  • The Royal Institution, Albemarle Street: the library. Coloured aquatint by J. C. Stadler, 1800, after A. C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson.
  • Delicious food carefully balanced / Compass Group PLC.
  • Delicious food carefully balanced / Compass Group PLC.
  • A boy telling his aunt the advantages of placing her name on the Social Register. Wood engraving after C. Keene, 1869.
  • Healthy eating / Department of Health.
  • Healthy eating / Department of Health.
  • The British Museum: the interior of the reading room, in use. Wood engraving by [I.C.] after C. Gregory, 1874.
  • Tom and Jerry at Jerry's house in Somerset with their companions seated around a fireplace, with a man reading something amusing. Aquatint by R. Cruikshank, 1830.
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