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Beautiful bedding and how to die well

When you are unwell, your bed can be both a refuge and a prison. Discover how artist Poppy Nash created a bed-centred artwork inspired by her own chronic illness and depictions of ill health from history.

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Charged bodies

Electrified humans brought education and performance together with a spark in the 18th century.

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Writing back to authority

As she cuts up old doctors’ letters and uses them to compose absurd poems, Caroline Butterwick reflects on the catharsis of creation and proposes writing as a way to take back control.

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How I cured my fear of vomiting

Emetophobia ruled every waking moment of Alex’s life. Until he came to realise he couldn’t live that way any more.

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  • Durban, Natal, South Africa: clothes and bedding laid outside houses for de-lousing. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • Attendants bringing bedding and a basin to a pavilion erected in a large, private garden. Colour woodcut by Kunisada, 1861.
  • Prepared peat moss litter ... : a useful, comfortable, and health-promoting bedding for dogs and birds ... /cLiverine Limited.
  • Actor Ichikawa Kodanji seated on bedding revealing a tattoo of a skull amid grasses on his left arm. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1861.
  • Retinal capillary bed
  • Bed Bugs: trade card
  • Drawing of a bed.
  • World War I: hospital beds
  • Retinal capillary bed with nuclei
  • Nurse carrying out a bed changeover
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