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"Faces from the Front examines the British response to the huge number of soldiers who incurred facial injuries during the First World War. These injuries were produced within a short time span, but (for the first time in a major conflict) did not necessarily lead to death due to developments in anaesthesia and improvements in the treatment of infection and blood loss."--From synopsis.

212 pages, xxiv pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 26 cm

Faces from the front : Harold Gillies, The Queen's Hospital, Sidcup, and the origins of modern plastic surgery / Andrew Bamji.

A collection of the Doonesbury strips from a seven month period that chronicle the wounding of B.D. in Iraq and his experiences along the road to rehabilitation.

93 pages : chiefly black and white illustrations ; 21 cm

The long road home : one step at a time : a Doonesbury book / by G.B. Trudeau; foreword by Senator John McCain.

"The Battle Against Stigma Book Project is a collaboration between the internationally renowned artist Mark Neville and Professor Jamie Hacker Hughes, one of the UK's leading experts in the field of veteran mental health. The overall aim of the project is to challenge the stigma of mental health problems in the military and to encourage attitude change in order to facilitate seeking help at an early stage, without people being stigmatised because of mental health issues."--Press release.

2 volumes (95, 85, [11] pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm

Battle against stigma / Mark Neville ; Jamie Hacker Hughes ; edited and curated by David Campany.

Outside the asylum : a memoir of war, disaster and humanitarian psychiatry / Lynne Jones.

Black and white reproduction of Ambroise Paré using the ligature when amputating at the siege of Damvillers, 1552, an oil painting by Ernest Board (1877-1934) circa 1912. This reproduction includes the frame and label "Ambroise Pare" and is held by Wellcome Collection. Related images: V0026980

Photographic library: "M" series

"M" series glass plate negatives: M0001809-M0001911

7 photographs glass plate negative; 16.5 x 12 cm sheet film negatives; 12.5 x 10 cm photographic print; 11.8 x 9.2 cm slide transparency; 3.5 x 3.5 cm

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Faces from the front : Harold Gillies, The Queen's Hospital, Sidcup, and the origins of modern plastic surgery / Andrew Bamji.

The long road home : one step at a time : a Doonesbury book / by G.B. Trudeau; foreword by Senator John McCain.

Battle against stigma / Mark Neville ; Jamie Hacker Hughes ; edited and curated by David Campany.

Outside the asylum : a memoir of war, disaster and humanitarian psychiatry / Lynne Jones.

M0001835: Reproduction of Ambroise Paré using the ligature when amputating at the siege of Damvillers, 1552, an oil painting by Ernest Board

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