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Celebrating our soft toys

After cuddling a teddy bear cured her insomnia, Elspeth Wilson was inspired to speak to four other autistic and disabled adults, who praise the roles soft toys play in their lives.

  • Long read

Our complicated love affair with light

Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.

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Guerrilla public health

From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.

  • Interview

Refugee health on a pound a day

Two refugees living a hand-to-mouth existence in the UK explain how trauma has affected their health, and how a little kindness is bringing them hope.

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  • A doctor goes off gallivanting with two young dancers. Colour process print after by J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • Night calls by doctors: sixteen vignettes. Wood engraving by M. Marais, 1897.
  • Journée mondiale de lutte contre le sida : 1er décembre 1995 : la Réunion des musées nationaux s'engage / Commission sociale de la Réunion des musées nationaux.
  • Journée mondiale de lutte contre le sida : 1er décembre 1995 : la Réunion des musées nationaux s'engage / Commission sociale de la Réunion des musées nationaux.
  • People using advanced materials and modes of transport in the year 2000, some travelling in hot-air balloons, some with their own wings, and some in carriages running on steam. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
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