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Shame, condemnation and conscience

Where does shame comes from and what fuels it? Lucia Osborne-Crowley explores audience, gender and the difference between shame and guilt, asking if either can ever be useful.

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Shakespeare’s cholerics were the real drama queens

In Shakespeare’s times, people’s personalities were categorised by four temperaments. The choleric temperament was hot-tempered and active.

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Meredith Wadman’s prescription for writing

The Wellcome Book Prize shortlisted author of ‘The Vaccine Race’ answers five questions on health, inspiration and storytelling.

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The doctor who challenged the unicorn myth

Our era of fake news and medical misinformation is nothing new. Estelle Paranque relays the thrusts and parries of a 440-year-old row over a magical cure-all, the unicorn horn.

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  • The next time you think it's safe not to use a condom, will you regret it? : Be confident, be covered / Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • The next time you think it's safe not to use a condom, will you regret it? : Be confident, be covered / Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • The next time you think it's safe not to use a condom, will you regret it? : Be confident, be covered / Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • Nous sommes au regret de vous annoncer les 20 ans d'ACT UP : Act Up-Paris 2009 : affiche pour les 20 ans de l'association / ACT UP Paris.
  • Nous sommes au regret de vous annoncer les 20 ans d'ACT UP : Act Up-Paris 2009 : affiche pour les 20 ans de l'association / ACT UP Paris.
  • ACT UP 20 ans : nous sommes au regret de vous annoncer les 20 ans d'ACT UP : Act Up-Paris 2009 : affiche pour les 20 ans de l'association / ACT UP Paris.
  • ACT UP 20 ans : nous sommes au regret de vous annoncer les 20 ans d'ACT UP : Act Up-Paris 2009 : affiche pour les 20 ans de l'association / ACT UP Paris.
  • SEX : no worries before, no hesitation during no regrets after : condoms... yes yes yes : Taking Care with sex / Lothian Health ; designed by The Graphics Company.
  • SEX : no worries before, no hesitation during no regrets after : condoms... yes yes yes : Taking Care with sex / Lothian Health ; designed by The Graphics Company.
  • An American sailor sits disconsolately in his pyjamas, regretting his infection with a venereal disease incurable with penicillin. Colour lithograph, ca. 1948.
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