Stories
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The sickness in the wellness industry
In recovery from anorexia, Gwen Smith began to realise how the wellness industry needs its followers to feel bad about themselves in order to make money out them.
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In pursuit of purity
Many cultures associate physical cleanliness with spiritual purity, while disease and dirt are signs of moral pollution.
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Trust me, I’m a patient
Artist Rachel Rowan Olive is an expert in the way her mental health condition affects her. Here she explains how it helps if doctors understand that.
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Drugs in Victorian Britain
Many common remedies were taken throughout the 19th century, with more people than ever using them. What was the social and cultural context of this development?
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Physical restraint on a horse.
Royal Veterinary College- Digital Images
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Twitch applied correctly, but not lead rope
Royal Veterinary College- Digital Images
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Horse's lead rope applied incorrectly
Royal Veterinary College- Books
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Relation d'une visite à l'asile des idiots d'Earlswood, comté de Surrey (Angleterre) : suivie de quelques réflexions sur le no-restraint / par E. Billod.
Billod, Louis Antoine Eugène, 1818-1886.Date: 1861- Books
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De la suppression de la camisole de force dans les asiles d'aliénés : thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue devant la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier le 30 juillet 1904 / par P. Girard.
Girard, P., 1867-Date: 1904