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The solidarity of sickness

Visiting an injured friend in hospital prompts writer Sinéad Gleeson to reflect on the instant rapport forged between compatriots in the kingdom of the sick.

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How slums make people sick

A newly gentrified corner of Bermondsey leaves little clue to its less salubrious history. But a few intrepid writers recorded the details of existence in one of London’s most squalid slums.

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“People see the disability but forget the ability”

I’m a disabled Asian woman, and mother of four. I’m trying to show people that we have to talk about disability if we want things to change.

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The tradesman who confronted the pestilence

The City of London, 1665. As the Great Plague hits the capital, John New faces a deadly dilemma.

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  • Sick and diseased children compared with healthy playing children: immunization in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph, ca. 2000.
  • New Hospital for Sick Children, Brighton
  • The Hospital for Sick Children: Private Nurses House.
  • The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street
  • The Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh. Old building.
  • Nottingham: open air treatment of sick children. Photograph, ca. 191-.
  • Mothers holding their sick children waiting to consult a physician. Lithograph by K. Kollwitz, 1920.
  • A mother sick in bed with her children before her. Lithograph by K. Kollwitz, 1920.
  • A sick mother has her pulse taken by a priest while her children look concerned. Mezzotint.
  • Mothers and nurses play with sick children on New Years Day. Wood engraving by H. Harral after M.E. Edwards.
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