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The housing that gives hope to refugees

A safe place of one’s own can be a source of healing and hope. George Kafka reports on two Athens-based projects helping displaced people by putting housing first.

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Lindsey Fitzharris’s prescription for writing

The Wellcome Book Prize shortlisted author of ‘The Butchering Art’ answers five questions on health, inspiration and storytelling.

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Mark O’Connell’s prescription for writing

The Wellcome Book Prize shortlisted author of ‘To Be a Machine’ answers five questions on health, inspiration and storytelling.

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The cook who became a pariah

New York, 1907. Mary Mallon spreads infection, unaware that her name will one day become synonymous with typhoid.

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  • King Charles I at Holdenby House (Holmby House), Northamptonshire, is summoned by Cornet Joyce, who shows the King his pistol as his authority. Engraving after P. Angelis.
  • Effective purchasing of HIV/AIDS-related services : a one-day seminar for health authorti and local authority purchasers at: BMA House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JP / British Medical Association Foundation for AIDS.
  • Effective purchasing of HIV/AIDS-related services : a one-day seminar for health authorti and local authority purchasers at: BMA House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JP / British Medical Association Foundation for AIDS.
  • A doctor giving a diagnosis of tonsillitis to a patient who is an author, the patient replies it will be useful for his next novel. Reproduction of a drawing after Beauchamp, 1927.
  • A yellow square receding within boxes of black lines against a blue background; advertising ZIK, Zuhause im Kiez gGmbH, an organisation which helps to house people with HIV, AIDS or chronic hepatitis C. Colour lithograph.
  • The suicide of Cleopatra: Cleopatra is shown lying on her bed grasping the tail of the asp with her left hand. Line engraving by R. Strange after a painting by Guido Reni, 1753.
  • Saint Mary Magdalen. Line engraving by R. Strange, 1753, after G. Reni.
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Leaking-house water
  • Ellen Julia Hollond. Coloured drawing, 1841.
  • Ellen Julia Hollond. Lithograph by L. Haghe, 1841.
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