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In search of the ‘nature cure’

Under the competing pressures of modern life, many of us succumb to mental ill health. Samantha Walton explores why so-called ‘nature cures’ don’t help, and how the living world can actually help us.

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Caring for our Disabled daughter in lockdown

Jane Holmes talks about the challenges of caring for her Disabled daughter while working and trying to stay safe during the pandemic.

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Eugenics and the welfare state

Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.

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The smile catchers

From facial recognition to emojis in apps, find out how the monitoring of emotions is used to get more out of workers.

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  • John Smith, known as Buckhorse, a pugilist. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1822, after D. Dodd.
  • Women looking at a vision in a magic mirror. Engraving by E.J. Portbury after J. Masey Wright.
  • A physician examining a urine flask. Oil painting in the manner of Salomon de Koninck.
  • A physician examining a urine flask. Oil painting in the manner of Salomon de Koninck.
  • A physician examining a urine flask. Oil painting in the manner of Salomon de Koninck.
  • British Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith: G. Grey Turner operating, 1946. Photograph by K.W. Wilkinson, 1946.
  • Pen-y-Gwryd, Wales: a mountaineering party seated outside Penygwryd Hotel, eight men, six women. Photograph by G.D. and A. Abraham, 1897.
  • British Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith: G. Grey Turner and colleagues, 1946. Photograph, 1946.
  • An oval cartouche containing a dedication to Dr Richard Mead. Engraving by G. Vandergucht, 17--.
  • John Broughton, "the founder of the British school of boxing". Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1822.
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