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A story of death, trauma and austerity

Marienna Pope-Weidemann, whose teenage cousin Gaia died after going missing, advocates a rethink of our systems, which currently fail many in mental distress.

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The healing power of breathing

The healing powers of different breathing methods are said to help with a range of health challenges, from asthma to PTSD. Effie Webb traces their spiritual origins and explores the modern proliferation of breathwork therapies.

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What is hysteria?

Hysteria has long been associated with fanciful myths, but its history reveals how it has been used to control women’s behaviour and bodies

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How can I stop fainting?

Fed up with the faints that bolstered her fragile young snowflake image, Gwen Smith sought expert medical help to keep her upright in trying situations.

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  • Nervous system, Avicenna, Canon of Medicine
  • Nervous system in a fruit fly larva, serial section TEM
  • The nervous system
  • The nervous system. Engraving, 1686.
  • Central nervous system, Zebrafish embryo
  • Transplanted cells in nervous system, embryo
  • H. Brunschwig, Nervous system: cell doctrine in "The noble esperyence of the vertuous warke of surgeri practysyd..."
  • Synopsis of the diastaltic nervous system / [Marshall Hall].
  • New memoir on the nervous system / [Marshall Hall].
  • Nervous system: five figures, showing the nerves, brain and spine. Line engraving by A. Bell after Eustachius, 1788/1797.
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