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Is it really OK to not be OK?

Our mental healthcare system is still the poor relation of services that treat physical illness, and the pandemic has shone a spotlight on this situation. Campaigner James Downs argues for fundamental change.

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Synaesthesia, or when senses overlap

What’s it like to see heartbeats, taste Tube stations or hear paintings?

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The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians

Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.

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Cowpox, Covid-19 and Jenner’s vaccination legacy

The well-known story of vaccination pioneer Edward Jenner has at its heart his drive to make vaccines free of charge and available to all. Now his principles extend to the global campaign for a people’s patent-free vaccine for Covid-19.

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  • James Craig with Mrs J. Craig and child. Photograph.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with the Christ Child and Saint Peter with Saint James the Great. Lithograph.
  • A guardian angel (or Night) carries a sleeping child. Etching by James Basire, 1763, after Domenico Cresti, il Passignano.
  • A guardian angel is carrying a child up into the sky to an altar dedicated to a parody of the Virgin. Etching by James Gillray, 1805.
  • The Virgin Mary, pregnant with James, and Joseph voyage back from Egypt with the child Jesus. Engraving by L. Vorsterman the elder, 1620, after P.P. Rubens.
  • A tight-knit family group with the father playing a game of "Bo-Peep" with the child over the mother's shoulder. Mezzotint by James Faed after Thomas Faed.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with the Christ Child, Saint Catherine of Alexandria (?) and Saint James the Greater. Engraving by A. Viviani after M. Orsi after the school of G. Bellini.
  • Everybody should go and see the beautiful child -- the giant boy, a second Daniel Lambert ... : James Paine, of London, aged 9 years, weighs the enormous weight of 19 stone and a half ...
  • King James VI of Scotland and I of England as a child, kneeling in front of an altar next to the tomb of his father, with his family behind him on the right. Engraving by G. Vertue, ca. 1743, after L. de Vogelaare.
  • King James VI of Scotland and I of England as a child, kneeling in front of an altar next to the tomb of his father, with his family behind him on the right. Engraving by G. Vertue, ca. 1743, after L. de Vogelaare.
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