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"Fish Oils - therapeutic use"
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How nature is defending itself in court
The idea that nature has legal rights is increasingly being taken seriously, but who gets to speak for it? Isabella Kaminski asks how the non-human can be represented within a human-made system.
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Ginger’s role in cures and courtroom battles
Some people will use a dose of ginger to help with hangovers – but it hasn’t always been a friend to the thirsty.
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How to cure the eco-anxious
Could community activism be the key to overcoming a fear of environmental collapse?
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The ugly truth about fast fashion
Aja Barber reflects on her relationship with fast fashion, outlines its polluting and destructive effects, and shares the small, personal changes we can make that could help.
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Doris Day blows against
Dodie Bellamy remembers a heady summer watching Doris Day grimace and gust in vintage movies, her expressive exhalations changing her onscreen world with a puff.
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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean
Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.
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The extraction of the excruciating bladder stones
Among those vying to find alternatives to major surgery for bladder stones, young doctor Jean Civiale stood out, painstakingly honing a method that was to become the norm.
'Bedlam: the asylum and beyond' upcoming exhibition at Wellcome Collection
Exploring how the experience of mental illness have been shaped over centuries and what the future might hold.
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Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
Being Human Captions
Read a complete set of gallery captions for Being Human, our gallery that explores how we think and feel about ourselves, our bodies and our relationship with the world around us.
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Thirst: In Search of Freshwater exhibition text
This exhibition explores humanity’s vital connection with freshwater – an essential source of life and pillar of good health for people and planet.
Exhibition highlight tour
Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights audio highlight tour
Explore the profound impact of physical work on health and the enduring fight for workers’ rights through our new major exhibition.
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