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Healthy scepticism

Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.

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Coronavirus, Crohn’s and me

Clinically vulnerable to COVID-19, Lucia Osborne-Crowley has been shut in her flat for months. With her chronic condition transformed into a life-threatening one, she explores what the pandemic is revealing about living with long-term illness.

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The anatomy of a brain dissection

Dissecting the brain after death not only helps confirm a diagnosis, but it can also teach us so much more about the symptoms and causes of brain diseases and how to treat them.

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When skin bleaching goes wrong

Warnings about permanent health damage don’t deter those using skin-bleaching products for years on end. Read the story of one woman who suffered from liver failure after years of striving to be paler.

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  • Sir Paul Rycaut. Line engraving, 1680, after R. White after Sir P. Lely.
  • A group of men looking in different directions within a red and white border surrounded by comments about AIDS related issues; an advertisement for safer sex in gay relationships by the AIDS Committee of Toronto. Colour lithograph by Sandra Guerra and Paul Johnston, 1994.
  • A group of men looking in different directions within a red and white border surrounded by comments about AIDS related issues; an advertisement for safer sex in gay relationships by the AIDS Committee of Toronto. Colour lithograph by Sandra Guerra and Paul Johnston, 1994.
  • An eye at the centre of a poster entitled "Lutter" [The fight] littered with strips of white text on black about attitudes to AIDS; one of a series of posters representing an advertisement for a competition for posters of images against AIDS organised by CRIPS. Colour lithograph by students from the Lycée Polyvalant Tertiaire Paul Doumer.
  • A meeting of a Calves-Head Club for Whig gentlemen who celebrate the execution of King Charles I. Engraving, 1734.
  • Chris Bennett in drag sits on stage, wearing a feathered head garment. Process print, 1921.
  • Chris Bennett in drag sits on stage, wearing a feathered head garment. Process print, 1921.
  • Paul Kemp in drag as Charley's aunt. Photographic postcard, 1933/1934.
  • Paul Kemp in drag as Charley's aunt. Photographic postcard, 1933/1934.
  • Fifteen French doctors wearing aprons and holding various instruments. Colour lithograph by A. Barrère, ca. 1903.
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