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The hidden history of homesickness

Gail Tolley delves into the history of homesickness and discovers that its rich past holds a clue to how we view the experience today.

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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life

The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.

  • Interview

Refugee health on a pound a day

Two refugees living a hand-to-mouth existence in the UK explain how trauma has affected their health, and how a little kindness is bringing them hope.

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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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  • Two women praying before a crucifix in the mountains. Engraving by P. Lightfoot after a painting by P. Foltz.
  • The cherry trees of the Sumida embankment; a ferry conveys passengers from the city on the west bank; two women in the foreground are entertainers/prostitutes; the mountain in the distance is Mount Tsukuba. Colour woodcut by Chikanobu.
  • Pen-y-Gwryd, Wales: a mountaineering party seated outside Penygwryd Hotel, eight men, six women. Photograph by G.D. and A. Abraham, 1897.
  • Henriette d'Angeville and her party ascending Mont Blanc, 1838. Colour lithograph by F. Baumann.
  • A mountain valley setting in which a woman lies back on a man in a state of semi-undress with her hand over her bare chest next to wild daisies with a motorbike and a deer nearby; German version of a series of safe sex 'Stop AIDS' campaign posters by the Federal Office of Public Health in collaboration with the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz. Colour lithograph.
  • Nepal; town life in the Khumbu, 1986
  • Swatow, Kwangtung Province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, ca. 1870.
  • Swatow, Kwangtung Province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, ca. 1870.
  • Swatow, Kwangtung Province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, ca. 1870.
  • Fleurs odorantes : cueillette des violettes à Parme / Compagnie Liebig.
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