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The blood notebooks

Novelist Rupert Thomson explores his unusual behaviour during a time of self-imposed isolation.

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The castration effect

Discover how testosterone – or the lack of it – affects the male body, from eunuch slaves to castrato singers, and on to hormone reduction in modern prostate cancer treatment.

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Bleeding healthy

For thousands of years, and in many different cultures, people have practised bloodletting for health and medical reasons. Julia Nurse explains where and when bleeding was used, how it was done, and why.

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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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  • Interior of a surgery with two operators, one letting blood from a man's arm, the other giving treatment to a man's back. Oil painting by a follower of David Teniers the younger.
  • Interior of a surgery with two operators, one letting blood from a man's arm, the other giving treatment to a man's back. Oil painting by a follower of David Teniers the younger.
  • Interior of a surgery with two operators, one letting blood from a man's arm, the other giving treatment to a man's back. Oil painting by a follower of David Teniers the younger.
  • Interior of a surgery with two operators, one letting blood from a man's arm, the other giving treatment to a man's back. Oil painting by a follower of David Teniers the younger.
  • Interior of a surgery with two operators, one letting blood from a man's arm, the other giving treatment to a man's back. Oil painting by a follower of David Teniers the younger.
  • Interior of a surgery with two operators, one letting blood from a man's arm, the other giving treatment to a man's back. Oil painting by a follower of David Teniers the younger.
  • Interior of a surgery with two operators, one letting blood from a man's arm, the other giving treatment to a man's back. Oil painting by a follower of David Teniers the younger.
  • Interior of a surgery with a woman having blood let from the arm, a surgeon treating a man's injured foot, and other figures. Oil painting by Egbert van Heemskerck.
  • Interior of a surgery with a woman having blood let from the arm, a surgeon treating a man's injured foot, and other figures. Oil painting by Egbert van Heemskerck.
  • Interior of a surgery with a woman having blood let from the arm, a surgeon treating a man's injured foot, and other figures. Oil painting by Egbert van Heemskerck.
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