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In the tracks of Derek Jarman’s tears

Researcher E K Myerson shares her moving encounters with the personal papers of artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman.

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Revelations of blindness in the Middle Ages

Medieval texts, from Islamic medical treatises to Christian books of miracles, reveal surprisingly varied and complex experiences of blindness. But when medieval scholar Jude Seal experienced visual impairment themselves, they gained an even deeper understanding of the lives they were studying.

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The leukaemia diagnosis I didn’t see coming

Treatment for leukaemia kept journalist Hannah Partos in isolation, like the female prisoner whose image inspired her to write this piece.

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Mary Bishop and the surveillant gaze

Writer and artist Rose Ruane explores the paintings of Mary Bishop, created during a 30-year stay in a psychiatric hospital, which speak of constant medical surveillance and censorious self-examination.

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  • Contents page to 'Studies in Bioloy and Pathology' in Creighton's handwriting
  • Second contents page to 'Studies in Bioloy and Pathology' in Creighton's handwriting
  • Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, with a sample of his handwriting above. Process print.
  • The gold-headed cane / by William Macmichael, M.D.; edited with explanatory and illustrative notes and an essay on William Macmichael, M.D., his life, his works, and his editors, by Herbert Spencer Robinson; containing the original illustrations of the 1828 edition and hitherto unpublished portraits of the Macmichael family and a reproduction of William Macmichael's handwriting.
  • Aidez-vous à sauver les tuberculeux réformés : [Guerre 1914-1917 : Journée nationale des tuberculeux anciens militaires]
  • Aidez-vous à sauver les tuberculeux réformés : [Guerre 1914-1917 : Journée nationale des tuberculeux anciens militaires]
  • Earthquake damage to fortifications, with snow-covered mountains, Jalal-Kut, Afghanistan. Coloured lithographs by W.L. Walton, c. 1850.
  • [Ralph, the elephant skin man : age 32].
  • [Ralph, the elephant skin man : age 32].
  • A hypochondriac patient consulting a cynical physician: the patient is healthy, but the physician will provide a treatment that will produce some symptoms of ill-health. Pen drawing, 183-(?).
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