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How wigs help children handle hair loss

For young people who lose their hair during cancer treatment, a wig can make them feel normal again. Carmel King photographs some of the processes and people involved with a charity providing beautiful human-hair wigs for kids.

  • Article

What our facial hair says about us

Five bearded and moustachioed men choose five hirsute archive images to help them reflect on the way facial hair is linked with personality and identity.

  • Article

The sum of my parts

Testing positive for a rogue gene meant Jessica Furseth was more susceptible to cancer. After the years of anger and dissociation from her body that followed, she began to pick up the pieces.

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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction

Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.

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  • A red sperm-like creature with a mohican haircut like protrusions typical of an HIV cell, with a row of men and women below and a message about AIDS; an advertisement by the Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • A barber cutting a girl's hair: a woman looks on. Wood engraving after J. Leech.
  • A barber cutting a man's hair. Watercolour painting.
  • A rating having his hair cut by another seaman below deck. Chromolithograph after G. Morton.
  • A barber cutting a man's hair. Wood engraving and letterpress.
  • A barber cutting a frowning man's hair. Ink drawing.
  • Male prisoners are sitting with their legs in stocks and their hands tied as men in turbans cut off their hair and moustaches. Etching.
  • A barber cutting a man's hair. Woodcut by Jost Amman.
  • A barber cutting a man's hair. Woodcut by Jost Amman.
  • A barber cutting a boy's hair. Lithograph.
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