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Embarrassment
Dealing with embarrassment can be hard. Turning it on yourself is harder.
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Shame and how our bodies betray us
Embarrassment about our desires, bodies and bodily functions can silence us. Lucia Osborne-Crowley asks whether a low-level but constant sense of shame is stopping us getting the help we need.
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Parasites and pests from the medieval to the modern
Humans have been reluctant hosts to a plethora of unpleasant parasites for centuries. And medieval evidence shows our modern distaste for these little irritations is just as ancient.
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Abandoning daydreams of a life without diabetes
After years of longing for a cure for her type 1 diabetes, Daisy Watson Shaw, partly due to medical advances in managing the condition, has reached a state of acceptance. Her wishes now are for greater understanding.
![A naked figure standing pleased with himself as he wears a condom on his erect penis with the words 'in: with a condom'; below, the same naked figure stands red with embarrassment holding his head and genitals without a condom with the words 'out: without a condom' in German; an advertisement for safe sex by the AHS [AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz], ASS [AIDS Suisse Contre le SIDA] and AAS [Aiuto AIDS Svizzero]. Colour lithograph.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b16749704_l0053825.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
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A plan of an English grammar-school education. With an introductory enquiry, Whether by the English Language alone, without the Embarrassment of Latin and Greek, the British Youth, in general, cannot be thoroughly accomplished in every Part of useful and polite Literature and qualified to make a more early, advantageous, and elegant Figure in Life. Addressed to the serious Consideration of every sensible Parent and Teacher in Great Britain. By James Buchanan.
Buchanan, James, active 1753-1773.Date: M,DCC,LXX. [1770]- Books
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A plan of an English grammar-school education. With an introductory inquiry, Whether by the English Language alone, without the Embarrassment of Latin and Greek, the British Youth, in general, cannot be thoroughly accomplished in every Part of useful and polite Literature, and qualified to make a more early, advantageous, and elegant Figure in Life. Addressed to the serious Consideration of every sensible Parent and Teacher in Great Britain. By James Buchanan.
Buchanan, James, active 1753-1773.Date: M,DCC,LXX. [1770]- Books
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The labyrinth; or, fatal embarrassment. A tragedy.
Corneille, Thomas, 1625-1709.Date: [1795]- Books
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An answer to Mr. de Lolme's observations on the late national embarrassment. By Neptune.
Neptune.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
The embarrassment of imperfection : Galen's assessment of Hippocrates' linguistic merits / Ineke Sluiter.
Sluiter, I. (Ineke)Date: 1995