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Insights and features
Longer reads and reflective pieces that explore the bigger picture. Designed to bring context, challenge thinking and offer new perspectives on practice.
Painful feet have been observed, documented and treated for centuries. In this feature, Dr Thomas Collins explores how routine lower limb care was described in early modern England – and what these accounts reveal about the long and often invisible history of the profession.