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The sickness in the wellness industry

In recovery from anorexia, Gwen Smith began to realise how the wellness industry needs its followers to feel bad about themselves in order to make money out them.

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In pursuit of purity

Many cultures associate physical cleanliness with spiritual purity, while disease and dirt are signs of moral pollution.

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Trust me, I’m a patient

Artist Rachel Rowan Olive is an expert in the way her mental health condition affects her. Here she explains how it helps if doctors understand that.

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Drugs in Victorian Britain

Many common remedies were taken throughout the 19th century, with more people than ever using them. What was the social and cultural context of this development?

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  • Physical restraint on a horse.
  • Twitch applied correctly, but not lead rope
  • Horse's lead rope applied incorrectly
  • Unsuitable lead rope for a horse
  • Suitable lead rope for a horse, attached to head
  • Wrapping horses lead round one's hand
  • Bridle restraint made more severe - gag
  • Horse's stable: poor wooden plank partition
  • Horse's head: double-ring twitch with loop
  • Rug trapped on horse's flanks
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