Stories
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Adapting to life as a thalidomide survivor
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.
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The current that kills
In the 19th century, electricity held life in the balance, with the power to execute – or reanimate.
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Sockets and stumps
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.
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Surviving a flesh-eating disease
Nearly dying from a skin infection gave Scott Neill a chance to start again after an early life marked by grief and depression.
Catalogue
- Books
Amputated souls : the psychiatric assault on liberty, 1935-2011 / Anthony James.
James, Anthony, 1956-Date: [2013]- Digital Images
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Amputated right tibia of a giant sea turtle archelon Ischyros; from Pierre Cretaceous of the South Fork, Cheyenne, South Dakota
- Digital Images
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Pl. XII. Operation at the shoulder joint to amputate the arm.
- Archives and manuscripts
M0007026: Manuscript illustration of a breast amputation
Date: 30 July 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/60/15Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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M0003697: Pottery vessels showing amputation of the foot
Date: November 1933Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/30/66Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive