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The castration effect

Discover how testosterone – or the lack of it – affects the male body, from eunuch slaves to castrato singers, and on to hormone reduction in modern prostate cancer treatment.

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Hysteria

Mental health and emotional symptoms are common during menopause, but a long history of dismissing sufferers as 'hysterical women', at the mercy of their emotions has made it much harder to discuss these issues and to get support.

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Doctors and the English seaside

Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.

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Shame’s long shadow

What is shame and why is it so powerful? A violent sexual assault left Lucia Osborne-Crowley suffocated with shame, but she’s now determined to understand how this overwhelming emotion works.

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  • Normal lachrymal gland
  • Illustration: dog's right adrenal gland
  • Adenoma of the parotid gland
  • Atrophy of the thyroid gland
  • Bioengineered sweat gland, conceptual artwork
  • Squamous carcinoma of lacrimal gland, microscopy
  • Santorini: muscle of face, parotid gland
  • Scirrhous cancer of the mammary gland
  • Scirrhous cancer of the mammary gland
  • Discharging boil, parotid gland area (sheep)
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