Stories
- Book extract
A dispatch from the frontiers of man and machine
Harry Parker’s life changed overnight when he stepped on a bomb and lost his legs. He argues that being an amputee doesn’t make him an outlier; we are all hybrid.
- Book extract
Sockets and stumps
Historian Emily Mayhew has met soldiers who have survived the seemingly unsurvivable. Here, she explores the part prosthetics play in the process of military rehabilitation.
- Article
Thalidomide survivors in the 21st century
As thalidomide survivors enter their 60s, they look back on their lives and the legacy of the thalidomide catastrophe.
- Article
Adapting to life as a thalidomide survivor
Growing up as a thalidomide survivor meant coping with all the usual challenges of childhood and adolescence, while having to fit into a world designed for the able-bodied.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Legs
Date: 1952-1970Reference: GC/147/B.7-8Part of: Cade, Sir Stanford- Ephemera
Legs, legs, legs.
Date: [1991]- Digital Images
- Online
Legs from a case of symmetrical gangrene
Godart, Thomas- Digital Images
- Online
Legs from a case of dermatitis herpetiformis
St Bartholomew's Hospital Photographic Society- Digital Images
- Online
Legs of a woman with osteitis deformans
St Bartholomew's Hospital Photographic Society