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A brief history of ventilation

As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.

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Why zombies can’t help coming back

Although it might appear that zombies are a 20th-century phenomenon, created for the horror-movie industry, they’ve actually been around since medieval times. Find out what zombies like to do, and how to get rid of them.

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Coasting to catastrophe

In climate change, everything – and everyone – is connected. The watery process that will gradually cut off the Isle of Thanet from the British mainland has begun, and everyone in the UK needs to pay attention.

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How electromagnetic therapy inspired me

Poet Sarah James explores how repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation treated her depression and influenced her art.

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  • Title page of A Physical Dissertation on Drowning
  • Resuscitation techniques for somebody who was drowning.
  • A drowning person throwing up arms. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1970.
  • A woman with long hair drowning. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1973.
  • A woman with long hair drowning. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1973.
  • The dance of death: death by drowning. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • The dance of death: death by drowning. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • Effects on the blood in the brains of two rabbits after death by drowning
  • Spanish soldiers slaughtering and drowning men and women in the streets of Maastricht. Etching.
  • The hands of a person drowning; above, purple and red diagonals. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1977.
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