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A message from my skin

As wildfires threatened Seattle, resident Sydney Baker experienced corresponding flares of acne and rashes. Her skin was telling her something about the health of the world around her.

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How hospital care fails disabled bodies

Hospitals aim to make sick people well. But if the sick person is also disabled, the unbending nature of monolithic hospital systems can easily worsen the situation. Here Jamie Hale writes from painful personal experience.

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Finding my body through the wilderness

Writer Jennifer Neal used vigorous exercise classes to try and heal herself in the years following an assault. But it was only while hiking outdoors that she found true strength.

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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists

Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.

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  • Chinese woodcut: Sores on the nape
  • Chinese woodcut: Various sores
  • Sores on the female genitalia: three details. Watercolour by Christopher D' Alton, 1836.
  • Job covered with sores, woodcut 1531.
  • Sores on the arm, leg and temple of two women. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1856.
  • Sores and diseased skin on the arm of a woman. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, ca. 1847.
  • Sores and diseased skin on the leg of a woman. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, ca. 1850.
  • Job covered with sores and wife, woodcut 1545.
  • Chinese woodcut: Abscesses -- 'human face sores', etc.
  • Sores and diseased skin on the leg and arm of a woman. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1856.
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