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Social isolation and the search for sanctuary

Threatened with deportation, Furaha Asani turned to her church for support. Met with silence and disinterest, she walked away, but argues that churches should do much more for migrants.

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When wounds replace words

For the many thousands of refugees waiting in Greece, the process to establish the truth of their tragic personal histories is often extremely upsetting. But a group of medics and legal workers is working together to make the system more humane.

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Duelling doctors

An enduring enthusiasm for 18th-century gentlemen to defend their ‘honour’ by duelling placed doctors in a delicate position. Specially when they faced being shot themselves.

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Naked, not nude

Classicist Caroline Vout argues that it’s time to take the dust covers off the Ancient Greeks and Romans, and to encounter their bodies not nude, but naked.

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  • The faces of men and women representing the warning that AIDS does not respect respect sex, race, age or social status; advertisement by Via Libre, Peru. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Saint John of God. Etching by F. Garzoli after F. Bigioli after F. Della Valle.
  • A physician's wife and family in a carriage drawn by a camel ridden by a servant: suggesting the social importance of the physician, India (?). Coloured lithograph by F. Jones after Captain G.F. Atkinson.
  • A British administrator and retired physician driving a carriage at high speed, accompanied by an Indian servant. Coloured lithograph by E. Walker after Captain G.F. Atkinson.
  • The tax on medicine represented as a tax on illness and, ultimately, even on the 'abnormality' of healthiness: ten vignettes. Photomechanical reproduction of a wood engraving by H. Maigrot, 1907.
  • A magpie and an ostrich are in discussion with an assembly of wild animals looking on from above. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.
  • Basket weavers. Gouache drawing.
  • A Turkish woman. Oil painting by a French or Dutch (?) painter, 17th century.
  • A Turkish woman. Oil painting by a French or Dutch (?) painter, 17th century.
  • A Turkish woman. Oil painting by a French or Dutch (?) painter, 17th century.
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