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Are you still nursing?

Julia Martins might get the side-eye for breastfeeding a three-year-old in the UK but, as she explains, examples from history, as well as the cultural norms of Brazil, where she grew up, are firmly on the side of extended nursing.

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Bleeding healthy

For thousands of years, and in many different cultures, people have practised bloodletting for health and medical reasons. Julia Nurse explains where and when bleeding was used, how it was done, and why.

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The empty bungalow

Grandma’s unsteady piles of stuff have been dismantled and dispersed. From an empty bungalow, Georgie Evans makes a plea for hoarding behaviour to be better understood.

  • 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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  • The challenge of AIDS for the community : 18-20th April 1990, St. David's Hall, Cardiff : a major international conference and exhibition : provisional programme / BMA, Royal College of Nursing.
  • The challenge of AIDS for the community : 18-20th April 1990, St. David's Hall, Cardiff : a major international conference and exhibition : provisional programme / BMA, Royal College of Nursing.
  • The challenge of AIDS for the community : 18-20th April 1990, St. David's Hall, Cardiff : a major international conference and exhibition : provisional programme / BMA, Royal College of Nursing.
  • The challenge of AIDS for the community : 18-20th April 1990, St. David's Hall, Cardiff : a major international conference and exhibition : provisional programme / BMA, Royal College of Nursing.
  • Public AIDS Symposium in Berlin on 28 November 1992
  • Two yellow lines encircled by a grey/green line at the centre of a poster with details of the Public AIDS Symposium in Berlin on 28 November 1992 at the Seminar Centrum, Berlin; organised by Berliner AIDS-Hilfe, Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe, an initiative of Sergei Bashir and Manfred D. Kuno. Colour lithograph by ComDesign.
  • Two yellow lines encircled by a grey/green line at the centre of a poster with details of the Public AIDS Symposium in Berlin on 28 November 1992 at the Seminar Centrum, Berlin; organised by Berliner AIDS-Hilfe, Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe, an initiative of Sergei Bashir and Manfred D. Kuno. Colour lithograph by ComDesign.
  • Meeting the challenge of disabling disease : animal research brings hope / Research for Health Charities Group.
  • Meeting the challenge of disabling disease : animal research brings hope / Research for Health Charities Group.
  • Meeting the challenge of disabling disease : animal research brings hope / Research for Health Charities Group.
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