Stories
- Article
Pain and the power of activism
Today, women with endometriosis have more access to better information than ever before. Jaipreet Virdi applauds the shared stories, online communities and self-help books empowering women in pain.
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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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Between sickness and health
In early 2020, the subject Will Rees was studying – imaginary illnesses – took on a new relevance as everyone anxiously scanned themselves for Covid symptoms each day. But this kind of self-scrutiny is nothing new, as he reveals.
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Why we no longer keep our dead at home
Today in the UK we rarely sit with, touch, or perhaps even see our loved ones after they’ve died. Past practices were very different and, Claire Cock-Starkey argues, were more helpful for those grieving.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Personal Letter Book
Date: Jan 1906 - Jan 1907Reference: WF/E/01/02/02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Management Committee 1997
Date: 1997Reference: PP/EDM/C/1/26Part of: Personal papers of Edith Morgan (1920-2003)- Books
1992/93 - 1994/95 HPSS management plan / Health & Personal Social Services Management Executive.
Date: [1992]- Books
Parkinson's disease and the nurse : information pack / [produced by the Nurse Working Party of the Parkinson's Disease Society].
Date: [1990]- Archives and manuscripts
Good Practices in Mental Health (GPMH)
Date: 1970s-1990sReference: PP/EDM/CPart of: Personal papers of Edith Morgan (1920-2003)