Stories
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Providing care across languages
When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.
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Eels and feels
For Georgian Londoners, the allure of electric animals was both intellectual and sensual.
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The meanings of hurt
In the early modern period, gruesome incidents of self-castration and other types of self-injury garnished the literature of the time. Alanna Skuse explores the messages these wounds conveyed.
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Aphasia and drawing elephants
When Thomas Parkinson investigated the history of “speech science”, he discovered an unexpected link between empire, elephants and aphasia.
Catalogue
- Books
A new companion to English Renaissance literature and culture / edited by Michael Hattaway.
Date: 2010- Books
Heroicus ; Gymnasticus ; Discourses 1 and 2 / Philostratus ; edited and translated by Jeffrey Rusten, Jason König.
Philostratus, the Athenian, active 2nd century-3rd centuryDate: 2014- Archives and manuscripts
English Miscellany, 18th Century
Date: 1703-1786Reference: MS.8405- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: Kalisch-Kersley
Date: 1807-1962Reference: MS.8897- Books
Classics in translation : a selective bibliography, 1930-76 / A.M.W. Green.
Green, A. M. W.Date: 1976