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How to stay together while keeping apart

Vivek Murthy explores how we can keep physically distant while staying emotionally connected.

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“It wasn’t an accident that I came to you”

Douglas meets psychoanalyst Susie Orbach for a follow-up session, ahead of delivering a difficult verdict.

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“I’ve never talked to anybody about this before”

Douglas is furious. He’s at crisis point and needs help. Read the first of his two sessions with psychoanalyst Susie Orbach.

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Disability in the post-pandemic world

Disabled people have suffered more than most during Covid-19, but there is still a chance to build a kinder society. Dolly Sen explores whether we will come together, or allow more brutal disparities to develop in the worsening recession.

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  • Duchenne muscular dystrophy - normal female, chromosomes have been highlighted by a fluorescent probe for exon 45/47 (note the double yellow band). This disorder is caused by a recessive gene on the X chromosome, so is normally shown only by males, who lack a second X chromosome. The condition starts with difficulty in walking and climbing stairs in early childhood, usually resulting in confinement to a wheelchair by the age of 10, with death from respiratory infection or cardiac failure by about the age of 20.
  • Medicine bottles, 19th century. Recessed gilded label, Varnished gilded label, brown edged.
  • Examples of hare-lip or congenital recesses of the lower lip, plate K in Treasury of Human Inheritance, edited by Karl Pearson, London, Dulau and Co, 1912
  • Duchenne muscular dystrophy carrier female
  • Polycystic Kidney Disease
  • Island of Mull, Scotland: a volcanic cirque. Etching by G. Riboldi.
  • An ancient cistern near Lentini, Val di Noto, Sicily. Coloured aquatint after L. Mayer, 1812.
  • An ancient cistern near Lentini, Val di Noto, Sicily. Coloured aquatint after L. Mayer, 1812.
  • World War I: a French underground hospital at Verdun. Oil painting by Ugo Matania, 1917.
  • World War I: a French underground hospital at Verdun. Oil painting by Ugo Matania, 1917.
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