Medicine and health

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Q&A Which king thought he was made of glass

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Reverend Spencer Parsons, head of the Chicago branch of the Clergy Consultation Service (CCS), an interfaith group dedicated to helping women obtain abortions before 'Roe v Wade'

The American clergy who helped women get abortions before Roe v Wade . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A British poster dated 1917 designed by Bert Thomas. (Photo by Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo)

A brief history of smoking

Jesus is shown cleansing ten lepers in a scene from the Gospel According to Luke, illustrated in an 11th-century manuscript

General History

Leprosy How has the disease been perceived and treated through history?

Portrait of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, showing his pronounced Habsburg jaw

Q&A What was the Habsburg jaw?

Pro-choice and pro-life advocates outside the Supreme Court in the 1970s, following the Roe v Wade decision. (Photo by Diana Walker//The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images)

A brief history of US abortion law, before and after Roe v Wade

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A woodcut of the brain from Andreas Vesalius’s groundbreaking 1543 treatise On the Fabric of the Human Body

The Elizabethans’ complex relationship with mental wellbeing . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Lindsay Fitzharris WL

Plastic surgery: transformed by WW1 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Kersten Hall WL

The birth of insulin: a scientific drama . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Dr DA Henderson examines children’s smallpox vaccination scars in Ethiopia

Why we should remember… Target Zero Day . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Black Death WL

Episode 6 How the pandemic transformed societies . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Lucy Ward WL

Catherine the Great: inoculation pioneer . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Black Death WL

Episode 5 Death, sin & spirituality . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Domenico Fetti painting illustrating a melancholic woman in the early 17th century

The Anatomy of Melancholy: how Robert Burton helped shape our understanding of the mind . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 4 Medieval medical thinking . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.