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The solidarity of sickness

Visiting an injured friend in hospital prompts writer Sinéad Gleeson to reflect on the instant rapport forged between compatriots in the kingdom of the sick.

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How hospital care fails disabled bodies

Hospitals aim to make sick people well. But if the sick person is also disabled, the unbending nature of monolithic hospital systems can easily worsen the situation. Here Jamie Hale writes from painful personal experience.

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The secret hystery of a womb

A Renaissance image of a caesarean section inspired Anna Blundy to recount the story of a hidden, perhaps mysterious part of her body.

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A dispatch from the frontiers of man and machine

Harry Parker’s life changed overnight when he stepped on a bomb and lost his legs. He argues that being an amputee doesn’t make him an outlier; we are all hybrid.

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  • The dream of a patient in Jungian analysis: a volcanic landscape by moonlight. Drawing by M.A.C.T., 1967.
  • The dream of a patient in Jungian analysis: a whorl with a black circle at the centre. Drawing by M.A.C.T., 1978-.
  • The dream of a patient in Jungian analysis: centre, a tree; left, a path; right, a bay. Drawing by M.A.C.T., 1976.
  • The dream of a patient in Jungian analysis: a valley, with a meandering path through trees beyond. Drawing by M.A.C.T., 1977.
  • The dream of a patient in Jungian analysis: a path through trees, on which three cyclists ride. Drawing by M.A.C.T., 197-.
  • The dream of a patient in Jungian analysis: a path on a high bridge, with higher arches and cliffs above. Drawing by M.A.C.T., 1977.
  • The dream of a patient in Jungian analysis: left, a rocky wall; right a swirling wave; at the end, six people. Drawing by M.A.C.T., 1971.
  • The dream of a patient in Jungian analysis: left, a rocky wall; right a swirling wave; at the end, six people. Drawing by M.A.C.T., 1971.
  • The dream of a patient in Jungian analysis: a railway tunnel, in which the rails at the far end form the trunk of a tree. Drawing by M.A.C.T., 197-.
  • The dream of a patient in Jungian analysis: a lofty series of viaducts rising above a valley, a man on horseback in the right foreground. Drawing by M.A.C.T., 197-.
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