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When ‘get well soon’ doesn’t cut it

When loved ones are seriously ill, we can hide behind dishonest platitudes or struggle to find the words. Meet the woman working to fix how we speak to sick people.

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Robinson Crusoe and the morality of solitude

Robinson Crusoe, fiction’s most famous castaway, was certainly isolated, but did he suffer the intrinsically modern affliction of loneliness?

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What is violence?

Criminologist Laura Bui explores her early understanding of violence and outlines its definition and wider consequences.

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Shame and how our bodies betray us

Embarrassment about our desires, bodies and bodily functions can silence us. Lucia Osborne-Crowley asks whether a low-level but constant sense of shame is stopping us getting the help we need.

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  • "Sunlight" : in sympathy : Sunlight Soap is in sympathy with the joys of women ... / Lever Brothers Ltd.
  • "Sunlight" : in sympathy : Sunlight Soap is in sympathy with the joys of women ... / Lever Brothers Ltd.
  • A poor, old and wounded war veteran watched in sympathy by a young Russian family - a Russian war fund poster. Halftone after S. Vinogradoff, 1914.
  • Boer War: wounded soldiers greeted with sympathy at Modder River Camp, after their trials at Magersfontein. Reproduction of a sketch by F. de Haenen after R. Thiele.
  • The history of generation. Examining the several opinions of divers authors, especially that of Sir Kenelm Digby, in his Discourse of bodies ... To which is joyned a Discourse of the cure of wounds by sympathy ... especially by ... Sir Gilbert Talbots powder / By Nath. Highmore.
  • A French lady from the Ancien Régime sympathizing with a young cleric who has toothache. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
  • Portrait of Sir K. Digby
  • Portrait of Sir K. Digby
  • Portrait of Sir K. Digby, head and shoulders
  • Portrait of Sir K. Digby,
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