Stories
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Pain and the power of activism
Today, women with endometriosis have more access to better information than ever before. Jaipreet Virdi applauds the shared stories, online communities and self-help books empowering women in pain.
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How my wheelchair changed my life
A young woman diagnosed with a disabling condition found her world shrank without the mobility aids she needed to get outside. Finally facing the stigma around using a wheelchair transformed her everyday life.
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Coleridge’s hypochondria
An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.
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The indelible harm caused by conversion therapy
With first-hand evidence from two powerful testimonies, neurologist Jules Montague explores the destructive history of conversion therapy, a punitive treatment designed to ‘cure’ people of homosexuality.
Catalogue
- Books
Back, sack & crack (& brain) : a rather graphic novel / by Robert Wells.
Wells, RobertDate: 2017
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The causes and treatment of chronic backache : with a consideration of the diagnosis of sacro-iliac 'relaxation' / by Robert W. Lovett.
Lovett, Robert W. (Robert Williamson), 1859-1924.Date: 1914- Archives and manuscripts
Monthly Memoranda (points for propaganda)
Date: 1926-1927Reference: WF/M/GB/30/04Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Cyriax, James Henry (1904-1985), orthopaedic physician
Cyriax, James Henry (1904-1985)Date: 1925-1999Reference: PP/JHC