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Is your job bad for your teeth?

Some surprising occupations pose hidden risks to dental health. Could your ivories be in particular peril?

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Dying at home and the doctor’s role

Our anonymous GP talks about the bittersweet rewards of supporting a patient when he chose to die at home.

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The birth of ante-natal classes

Is childbirth an athletic feat? Kathleen Vaughan certainly thought so, developing the first modern exercise class for women in pregnancy.

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Sex work and critical campaigners

When campaigners filmed secretly in the club where she worked, exotic dancer Ella Smith felt frightened and degraded. Here she speaks out about the attack on her livelihood.

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  • Scheuchzer, 1731-33; Job: skeleton
  • Job covered with sores, woodcut 1531.
  • Back of Job statue, showing syphilis ulcers.
  • Job. Woodcut attributed to the Petrarch Master, 1539.
  • Job covered with sores and wife, woodcut 1545.
  • Job in his sickness being scourged by the devil.
  • Job and his three friends: the speech of Bildad. Woodcut.
  • Job and his three friends: the speech of Eliphaz. Woodcut.
  • A man suffering from ulcers all over his body (Job?). Photograph of a sculpture.
  • A man suffering from ulcers all over his body (Job?). Photograph of a sculpture.
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