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How hospital care fails disabled bodies

Hospitals aim to make sick people well. But if the sick person is also disabled, the unbending nature of monolithic hospital systems can easily worsen the situation. Here Jamie Hale writes from painful personal experience.

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“Above resistant pavements, I floated”

In this extract from ‘Living with Buildings and Walking with Ghosts’, walk with Iain Sinclair through the streets of London.

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Equality in genetics

Genetic counsellor Sasha Henriques harnessed her energy and resolve to tackle the racial biases she saw in her profession – with positive and promising results.

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Journeying home

A serious health scare was the catalyst to Chris beginning the process of understanding his experiences more clearly, and using that new insight to help other intersex people.

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  • Hospital: ground floor plan of Addenbrookes Hospital.
  • St. Bartholomew's Hospital and Christ Hospital, a plan.
  • Burnley Hospital. Ground floor plan.
  • Plan of Civil Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium.
  • Ground floor plan of the London Hospital.
  • Hospital des Petits Maisons, Paris: plans. Engraving.
  • Plan of London, Medical socities and hospitals.
  • Plan of the Lock Hospital, Southwark from the original plans in the Archives of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, to whom the copyright belongs.
  • Maternity hospital, Paris: ground plan. Process print, 1913.
  • Fever Hospital, Margate, Kent, England: floor plan. Line engraving.
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