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When self-deception becomes global hoax

Being deceived isn’t always a case of believing someone else’s lie. Experiments have shown that many of us can be manipulated into accepting our own fictions as true.

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Selling sex and sacrificing safety

Sex workers who report crimes against them can face a “what do you expect?” attitude. But one organisation is working to protect vulnerable people in the sex industry.

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Hunting lost plants in botanical collections

A bark specimen at Kew recalls the story of a South American man who harvested the most potent source of the only effective malaria treatment available in the late 1800s. Killed for his work and forgotten by history, Manuel Mamani was a victim of the colonial juggernaut.

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“I’ve never talked to anybody about this before”

Douglas is furious. He’s at crisis point and needs help. Read the first of his two sessions with psychoanalyst Susie Orbach.

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  • Reports of medical cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy / By Richard Bright.
  • Reports of medical cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy / By Richard Bright.
  • Reports of medical cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy / By Richard Bright.
  • Reports of medical cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy / By Richard Bright.
  • Reports of medical cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy / By Richard Bright.
  • Reports of medical cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy / By Richard Bright.
  • Reports of medical cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy / By Richard Bright.
  • Reports of medical cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy / By Richard Bright.
  • Reports of medical cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy / By Richard Bright.
  • Reports of medical cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy / By Richard Bright.
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