Stories
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Rebuilding my identity after a brain injury
Chris Miller talks about how a brain injury forced him to reassess his place in the world – physically, personally and socially.
- In pictures
War and disfigurement
The fighting methods of World War I brought with them a huge increase in disfiguring facial injury. See how surgeons and sculptors helped injured men face the world again.
- In pictures
The lost art of convalescence
The efficacy of antibiotics and the demands of work mean we rarely convalesce after an illness. But in the past it was an important part of the return to health.
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Healing hard-working hands
The names we use to describe different hand injuries tell us about history, gender and class. Occupational therapist María Cristina Jiménez explores those injuries, and the changing ways we talk about them.
Catalogue
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Back injuries and their significance under the Workmen's compensation and other acts / by Archibald McKendrick.
McKendrick, Archibald, 1876-1960.Date: 1916- Books
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Railway injuries : with special reference to those of the back and nervous system, in their medico-legal and clinical aspects / by Herbert W. Page.
Date: 1891- Books
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Railway injuries : with special reference to those of the back and nervous system, in their medico-legal and clinical aspects / by Herbert W. Page.
Page, Herbert W.Date: 1891- Books
Backache and sciatic neuritis : back injuries, deformities, diseases, disabilities with notes on the pelvis, neck, and brachial neuritis / by Philip Lewin.
Lewin, Philip, 1888-Date: [1943], ©1943- Books
The back and its disk syndromes : including injuries, diseases, deformities, and disabilities with notes on the pelvis and coccyx / by Philip Lewin ; line drawings by Harold Laufman.
Lewin, Philip, 1888-Date: 1955