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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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How Mills & Boon made medicine romantic

‘Doctor-nurse’ romances are a hugely popular trope. Agnes Arnold-Forster explores their history and surprisingly nuanced depictions of womanhood, hospitals and the welfare state.

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What happy endings teach us in childhood

Kate Wilkinson explores why, in quest fiction, good must triumph over evil, and what that means both for childhood dreams and adult realities.

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Why are women more willing donors than men?

Why is there a gender imbalance when it comes to the donation of organs, blood and tissue, and what can be done about it?

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  • Leander swimming the Hellespont towards Hero's light, with Eros guiding him. Engraving.
  • A steam-powered spinning disc known as the aeolipile, or Hero's engine. Gouache.
  • Leander and Hero; Iole and Hercules; Pan and Syrinx. Etching by P. Aquila after Annibale Carracci.
  • For two kinds of cough, two kinds of treatment Piriex and Ethnine : "The Parting of Hero and Leander".
  • For two kinds of cough, two kinds of treatment Piriex and Ethnine : "The Parting of Hero and Leander".
  • Surgeon Hua T'o operating upon the war hero Juan Kung,
  • Death astride his horse is the hero of the battlefield. Etching.
  • The face of a hero immediately before death. Drawing, c. 1789, after A. Schluter.
  • An actor as a Chinese hero wringing out his sleeve. Colour woodcut by Hokkei.
  • The face of a hero immediately before death. Drawing, c. 1789, after A. Schluter.
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