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- Article
- Article
Adapting to life as a thalidomide survivor
| Ruth BlueHollie Chastain
Growing up as a thalidomide survivor meant coping with all the usual challenges of childhood and adolescence, while having to fit into a world designed for the able-bodied.
- Book extract
- Book extract
Sockets and stumps
| Dr Emily Mayhew
Historian Emily Mayhew has met soldiers who have survived the seemingly unsurvivable. Here, she explores the part prosthetics play in the process of military rehabilitation.
- Article
- Article
Surviving a flesh-eating disease
| Scott NeillNan Carreira
Nearly dying from a skin infection gave Scott Neill a chance to start again after an early life marked by grief and depression.
- Long read
- Long read
Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
| Florence WildbloodKathleen Arundell
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.