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Sex work and critical campaigners

When campaigners filmed secretly in the club where she worked, exotic dancer Ella Smith felt frightened and degraded. Here she speaks out about the attack on her livelihood.

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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.

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Providing care across languages

When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.

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Aphasia and drawing elephants

When Thomas Parkinson investigated the history of “speech science”, he discovered an unexpected link between empire, elephants and aphasia.

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  • A Roman academy of artists. Etching after Pier-Francesco Alberti, 16--.
  • An écorché with a raised left arm seen from the back; studies of the muscles of the right and left thighs, seen from the front. Red-chalk drawing, 17th century, after L. Cigoli.
  • An écorché seen from the back. Red-chalk drawing, 17th century.
  • An écorché seen from the back. Red-chalk drawing, 17th century.
  • The trunk of an écorché seen from the back. Red-chalk drawing, 17th century.
  • Philippe Ricord. Coloured wood engraving (?), 1867, after A. Gill.
  • The muscles of the suspended right arm, seen from the front. Red-chalk drawing, 17th century.
  • The muscles of the raised left arm and of the upper left shoulder, seen from the front. Red-chalk drawing, 17th century.
  • The muscles of the suspended right arm, seen from the front. Red-chalk drawing, 17th century.
  • The muscles of the suspended right arm and upper right shoulder, seen from the back. Red-chalk drawing, 17th century.
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