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London, city of lost hospitals

Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.

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Rejecting shame and a decade of change

Jess Thom spent years trying to ignore and suppress the tics of Tourette’s syndrome. Read what happened when she decided to celebrate them instead.

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The Transvengers as foe of the paradigm of heteronormativity

Jason Barker writes about his experience of working with a group of young trans people and describes the process of developing the theory which underlies The Transvengers comic, and society, today.

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How slums make people sick

A newly gentrified corner of Bermondsey leaves little clue to its less salubrious history. But a few intrepid writers recorded the details of existence in one of London’s most squalid slums.

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  • School of the London Society for Teaching the Blind to Read, Avenue Road, London: seen from the road. Coloured lithograph by E. T. Dolby after H. E. Kendall, 1838.
  • The nervous system of the human body: as explained in a series of papers read before the Royal Society of London; with an appendix of cases and consultations on nervous diseases ... / [Sir Charles Bell].
  • The nervous system of the human body: as explained in a series of papers read before the Royal Society of London; with an appendix of cases and consultations on nervous diseases ... / [Sir Charles Bell].
  • The nervous system of the human body: as explained in a series of papers read before the Royal Society of London; with an appendix of cases and consultations on nervous diseases ... / [Sir Charles Bell].
  • The Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London.
  • The healer.
  • The healer.
  • The healer.
  • The healer.
  • The healer.
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