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How to thrive in lockdown

Gareth Berliner shares how being a Disabled person has given him the resilience and motivation to find a new creative challenge during lockdown.

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Rediscovering Margaret Louden, a forgotten NHS hero

Bored during lockdown, David Jesudason started bin diving at night. Then a chance discovery set him on a new path: to tell the story of a forgotten female surgeon.

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Of incubators, orchids and artificial wombs

In this extract from Claire Horn’s new book, ‘Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth’, she traces the development of the artificial womb, soon to become a reality.

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Stigma, schizophrenia and being transgender

When he was diagnosed with schizophrenia, Ashley McFord-Allister discovered that the medical world will not continue gender confirmation treatment while treating a mental health condition. Here he exposes the prejudice behind this attitude.

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  • Rabbit health check, injecting fluids
  • Rabbit health check, injecting fluids
  • Rabbit health check, injecting fluids
  • Machell's pump for extracting fluids. Engraving, 1800/1850.
  • On transfusion of blood and saline fluids / by Chas. Egerton Jennings.
  • Restitutions Fluid : Gebrauchsanweisung : man mischt 1 Teil dieses Fluids mit 1 Teil kalten Wasser ... / Apotheke zum heiligen Geist, STEYR, Kirchengasse 16 ; Mag. Ph. Otto Dunkl.
  • How HIV transmission works: getting fucked : fluids were a matter of some concern for Howard / GMFA, London Gay Men's HIV Prevention Partnership, MetroM8.
  • How HIV transmission works: getting fucked : fluids were a matter of some concern for Howard / GMFA, London Gay Men's HIV Prevention Partnership, MetroM8.
  • Engraving showing Sanctorio sitting in the balance that he constructed to determine the net weight change over time after the intake and excretion of food stuffs and fluids
  • Three labels bearing the words 'Blood', 'semen' and 'vaginal fluids' which can carry the HIV virus with an embracing couple, a needle and a pregant woman; one of a series of fact sheets about AIDS and HIV. Colour lithograph.
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