Stories
- Long read
Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
- Article
Aphasia and drawing elephants
When Thomas Parkinson investigated the history of “speech science”, he discovered an unexpected link between empire, elephants and aphasia.
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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
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Medical rehabilitation : the pattern for the future / report of a sub-committee of the Standing Medical Advisory Committee.
Scotland. Standing Medical Advisory Committee.Date: 1972- Books
Complementary and alternative medicine in rehabilitation / Eric Leskowitz.
Leskowitz, Eric D.Date: [2003], ©2003- Archives and manuscripts
Casualty rehabilitation (in Britain and Europe)
Date: c.1940sReference: PP/HEW/C.8/6Part of: Whittingham, Sir Harold E., 1887-1983, Air Marshal- Books
Practical procedures in oral rehabilitation / Ernest R. Granger.
Granger, Ernest R., 1905-Date: [1962], ©1962- Books
The industrial rehabilitation of long-stay schizophrenic patients : a study of 45 patients at an industrial rehabilitation unit / J.K. Wing, D.H. Bennett, and John Denham.
Wing, J. K. (John Kenneth), 1923-Date: 1964