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Healthy scepticism

Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.

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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean

Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.

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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India

Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.

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Why the NHS is worth saving

In this extract from his latest book, ‘Free For All’, Dr Gavin Francis poses challenging questions to be addressed if a health service that’s free for all at the point of use is to remain possible.

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  • Lancet with Greenstone blade and ivory handle, Eskimo. Used for making an incision to insert a labret.
  • Doll, spirit figure, in Ivory, Eskimo. Finely carved facial features. Head perforated through ears, and cotton threaded to represent hair.
  • Carved wooden birds of a medicine man, Cameroons, W. Africa.
  • 'Medicine' for smallpox in courtyard of house in Abong
  • Terracotta representation of a kneeling peasant, Africa.
  • Terracotta representation of a kneeling peasant, Africa.
  • Terracotta representation of a kneeling peasant, Africa.
  • Kwanyama mother giving enema to her baby boy.
  • Map of the world showing distribution of "Primitive Peoples".
  • Kwanyama mother giving enema to her baby boy.
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