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Rejecting shame and a decade of change
Jess Thom spent years trying to ignore and suppress the tics of Tourette’s syndrome. Read what happened when she decided to celebrate them instead.
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Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
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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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The making of ‘Quacks’
How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?
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Propoasls [sic] for insurance on marriage by the generous and amicable societies, at their office at Widow Pratts Coffee-House, in Cat-Faten-Street, by St. Lawrence Church nigh Guild-Hall.
Generous and Amicable Societies (London, England)Date: 1710]- Books
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Proposals by the Generous and Amicable Society for insurance on marriages, by a weekly dividend. At their office at Widom Pratt's coffee-house in Cat-Eaten Street, at the west-end of St. Lawrence Church near Guild-Hall.
Generous and Amicable Societies (London, England)Date: 1711]- Books
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Articles and orders, agreed upon by the Amicable Society at the Rose in Cheapside, London.
Amicable Society at the Rose, in Cheapside (London, England)Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]- Books
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At the Widdow Pratt's Coffee-House, in Cat-Eaten street, by St. Laurence Church, near Guild-Hall, is kept a faithful and equitable office of insurance on marriages and births; in both which are two subscriprious, one of five shillings, which entitles the insurer fo five hundred pounds: ...
Generous and Amicable Societies (London, England)Date: 1711?]- Books
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A true state of the Amicable Society, at the corner of Dean-Street, Fetter-Lane. With reasons for altering the government of, and establishing that Society on a solid and sure foundation. Also a specimen of articles propos'd. And a Scheme at large for a New One.
Amicable Society for a Perpetual Assurance Office.Date: 1714