Stories
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We who can’t believe
Unless she falls to the floor unconscious, Anne Boyer has always ignored signs of illness. Cancer, however, made her face her fallibility.
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Coronavirus, Crohn’s and me
Clinically vulnerable to COVID-19, Lucia Osborne-Crowley has been shut in her flat for months. With her chronic condition transformed into a life-threatening one, she explores what the pandemic is revealing about living with long-term illness.
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Silent threat
As Vanessa Peterson recovered from a frighteningly serious illness, she wondered whether it was linked to air quality. For many communities, she found, pollution is a political issue.
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Reversing the psychiatric gaze
Nineteenth-century psychiatrists were keen to categorise their patients’ illnesses reductively – by their physical appearance. But we can see a far more complex picture of mental distress, revealed by those patients able to express their inner worlds in art.
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Still going places.
Date: 1955- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 7
Date: Aug 1903 - Jul 1904Reference: WF/E/01/01/07Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
The chronic mental patient in the community / formulated by the Committee on Psychiatry and the Community.
Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. Committee on Psychiatry and Community.Date: 1978- Books
Get me through tomorrow : a sister's memoir of brain injury and revival / Mojie Crigler.
Crigler, MojieDate: [2015]- Books
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Quaranzine! : a zine about isolation, connectedness & survival in dark times / edited by Mad Covid.
Date: [2020]