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The gym of cartoon men

In men, body dysmorphia can be expressed as ‘bigorexia’ – the belief that your body is too weak and thin – or anorexia. Andrew McMillan explores two sides of the same coin.

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Stigma, schizophrenia and being transgender

When he was diagnosed with schizophrenia, Ashley McFord-Allister discovered that the medical world will not continue gender confirmation treatment while treating a mental health condition. Here he exposes the prejudice behind this attitude.

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The indelible harm caused by conversion therapy

With first-hand evidence from two powerful testimonies, neurologist Jules Montague explores the destructive history of conversion therapy, a punitive treatment designed to ‘cure’ people of homosexuality.

  • Interview

Inside the mind of George Vasey, co-curator of Misbehaving Bodies

Discover how curator George Vasey honoured the approaches of Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, who mischievously subvert clichés around illness and death.

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  • Male écorché, front view, with right hand raised to its face. Pencil and red chalk drawing, by F. T. Goodall, 1865.
  • A standing male écorché figure: front view. Engraving by T. Milton, 1804.
  • A standing male écorché figure: back view, showing the muscles. Engraving by T. Milton, 1802.
  • Martyrdom of three male saints on an elaborate scaffold. Etching by A.T. [A. Tempesta] (?).
  • A standing male écorché figure: front view, showing the skeleton and muscles. Engraving by T. Milton, 1803.
  • A standing male écorché figure: back view, showing the muscles and skeleton. Engraving by T. Milton, 1803.
  • A travelling chiropodist tending to a male patient's foot, Beijing. Wood engraving by T.H. Hildibrand after E. Ronjat after J. Thomson.
  • Two male merchants in Constantinople haggle over a woman slave, while other women look on. Tinted lithograph by T. Allom after himself.
  • A standing male écorché figure: side view, with right arm extended and outline diagrams showing the individual muscles. Engraving by T. Milton, 1804.
  • A male dancer jumping with his body and arms horizontal representing an advertisement for an AIDS benefit performance at the AT & T Danstheater, Den Haagh [The Hague] by t.b.v. AIDS Fonds. Colour lithograph.
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