Stories
- Article
Taking the piss
Council cuts have created public-toilet deserts across the UK, limiting journeys and days out for people whose medical conditions mean toilet access is essential. Campaigner Kevin Crowe highlights the issues.
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Building resilience in a racist world
With the resurgence of racism in today’s UK, Louisa Adjoa Parker reflects on the trauma of growing up in a racist society and explores how victims could begin to heal.
Catalogue
- Books
Under the knife : a history of surgery in 28 remarkable operations / Arnold van de Laar.
Laar, Arnold van deDate: 2018- Archives and manuscripts
Corporate photography shoots C0010149 - C0012901
Date: c.2000-c.2002Reference: WT/B/11/1/36Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
A doctor pumps the stomach of his obese seated patient while another couple wait, one who has already undergone reduction examines his deflated countenance in a mirror. Coloured etching by H. Heath, 1827.
Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850.Date: July 1827Reference: 11809i- Pictures
A doctor pumps the stomach of his obese seated patient while another couple wait, one who has already undergone reduction examines his deflated countenance in a mirror. Coloured etching by J.P.M. Jazet after H. Heath.
Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850.Reference: 11810iPart of: Arithmetic- Pictures
An obese midwife on her way to a labour in the early hours of the morning. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: 12 February 1811Reference: 16984iPart of: Tegg's caricatures