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The castration effect

Discover how testosterone – or the lack of it – affects the male body, from eunuch slaves to castrato singers, and on to hormone reduction in modern prostate cancer treatment.

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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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Father of the house

Stuart Evers thought he’d shaken off his family’s rigid definition of masculinity. But when he became a dad, those buried patriarchal ideas made an unexpected return.

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Epidemic threats and racist legacies

Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.

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  • Two men are carrying a palanquin between them along a road, others walk behind with yokes across their shoulders. Wood engraving.
  • Two oxen harnessed to a yoke. Coloured etching, ca 1808, after Scott.
  • Bulgarian women wearing national dress, one with a yoke-pole and two water pails.
  • Singapore: two Singaporean men carrying a yoke and smoking pipes. Watercolour by J. Taylor, 1879.
  • A cattle thief in Siam punished by having a yoke fixed around his neck. Process print, 19--.
  • A cattle thief in Siam punished by having a yoke fixed around his neck. Process print, 19--.
  • A man carrying a wooden pole (yoke) with pots suspended on either ends. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Two field labourers at Amoy, one carries straw over his shoulder via a yoke, the other carries a food pot, Fukien province, China
  • A man in Japan with two panniers filled with vegetables suspended from a yoke is accompanied by a woman carrying buckets. Colour process print.
  • A wagon horse with blinkers, yoke and girth standing in a field with its girth tied to the ground. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.
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