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Backstroke to the future

Now one of the most popular forms of exercise, the health-giving properties of swimming have not always been recognised. Dive into a gallery that charts the course from water as site of danger to a space of health.

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Fashion for an unruly body

One weekend, just before an operation to correct her scoliosis, Rosalind Jana stopped trying to hide her body. Read how those two days helped her step into the future.

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When kids are offered free cosmetic surgery

When they were a child, Jasmine Owens’ dentist offered to break their jaw – for free. It would make them look better, he said. Read on to find out whether or not they agreed.

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A Drop in the Ocean: internal reality

This immersive audio piece was designed to give listeners a greater understanding of psychosis, something that’s hard to explain in words.

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  • Three men wearing orthopedic apparatus exercising; another is strapped into leg braces. Aquatint by P. Sandby (?), 1783.
  • Three men wearing orthopedic apparatus exercising; another is strapped into leg braces. Aquatint by P. Sandby (?), 1783.
  • Three men wearing orthopedic apparatus exercising; another is strapped into leg braces. Aquatint by P. Sandby (?), 1783.
  • Three men wearing orthopedic apparatus exercising; another is strapped into leg braces. Aquatint by P. Sandby (?), 1783.
  • A black child in a stripy top and braces who has AIDS; an advertisement for The Aids Health Project. Lithograph.
  • A woman holds a black child wearing a stripy top and braces who has AIDS; an advertisement for The Aids Health Project. Lithograph.
  • A woman holds a black child in a stripy top and braces who has AIDS; an advertisement in spanish for The Aids Health Project. Lithograph.
  • Brace and bit type trepan; steel with wood handle.
  • A diagram of a head illustrating a jaw and chin brace. Stipple print by J. Bell.
  • A woman walking wearing a back brace with a spinal indicator. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
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