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The art of soundproof design

Too much noise is more than annoying – it has serious negative effects on health and cognitive ability. Find out how designers and architects are mitigating the downsides of sound.

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Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high

The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.

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Pain, politics and the power of photography

Art historian Giulia Smith explains what she most admires in the work of Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, and how their approach makes illness political.

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Chronic illness and the pressure to get well

When she was ill, Naomi Morris assumed she was on a straightforward journey from sickness to health. But what if our experiences of mental distress and ill health aren’t that neat?

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  • Living with differences : sexuality, values and the teacher : a course for teachers responsible for PSD, health education and religious studies on personal, religious and moral education in the age of AIDS : 9th-11th June, 1989 / University of Hull Social Values Research Centre.
  • Living with differences : sexuality, values and the teacher : a course for teachers responsible for PSD, health education and religious studies on personal, religious and moral education in the age of AIDS : 9th-11th June, 1989 / University of Hull Social Values Research Centre.
  • Living with differences : sexuality, values and the teacher : a course for teachers responsible for PSD, health education and religious studies on personal, religious and moral education in the age of AIDS : 9th-11th June, 1989 / University of Hull Social Values Research Centre.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a library with patients(?), doctors (?), possibly patient ledgers in bookcase. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: male patients (criminal insane?) in bed in ward, prison bars in foreground guarded by policeman. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a cell with bed seen through doorway. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a wharf on the East River with buildings. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a lodge with oeil-de-boeuf windows seen from above next to wharf. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: hospital buildings with a tower; a pile of bricks in the foreground from a demolished building. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: children patients, nurses and doctors sitting on a balcony in the sunshine. Photograph.
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