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Self-obsessing in the age of selfies

The tiny, joyful spark of a social media ‘like’ can lead to a damaging obsession. Find out how far people will go when their phone addiction gets the upper hand.

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When monarchs healed the sick

Our current Queen fortunately doesn’t have to spend hours laying hands on the sick to cure them. But it was a different story for monarchs of the early modern era, whose touch was a sought-after treatment for scrofula.

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On body horror and growing up strange

A young child’s unusual feelings, reactions and assertions are routinely dismissed by adults. Find out how manga horror stories became a source of strength, and helped them trust their adult body.

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The leukaemia diagnosis I didn’t see coming

Treatment for leukaemia kept journalist Hannah Partos in isolation, like the female prisoner whose image inspired her to write this piece.

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  • Neck ornaments, New Zealand
  • Gumma in the Glands of the Neck.
  • Neck and chest of a man with an aortic aneurysm
  • Neck of a woman suffering from mycosis fungoides of the skin
  • Neck and shoulders of a girl suffering from pityriasis rubra pilaris
  • Neck and shoulders of a boy with wasting of the left trapezius
  • Neck of an écorché figure. Chalk drawing by C. Landseer, ca. 1825.
  • Neck and lower part of the face of a woman who attempted suicide
  • Neck and shoulders of a woman with a skin disease: back view. Chromolithograph, c. 1888.
  • Horse's neck: whorls with feathering
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