Stories
- Article
Giving shape to sound
Fascinated by language and how music feels, Deaf rapper Signkid creates tracks that give shape to sound. He discusses inspiration, access and performing for all audiences, D/deaf and hearing alike.
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The Key to Memory: Use art to articulate
Danny Rees explains what William Utermohlen’s self-portraits can tell us about how and why we remember.
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Writing back to authority
As she cuts up old doctors’ letters and uses them to compose absurd poems, Caroline Butterwick reflects on the catharsis of creation and proposes writing as a way to take back control.
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“I’ve never talked to anybody about this before”
Douglas is furious. He’s at crisis point and needs help. Read the first of his two sessions with psychoanalyst Susie Orbach.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
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William Bannerman - Scottish Battle Scene
Date: c.1860Reference: DGH1/7/3/1/14Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
Art in Madness - Early Patient Artwork
Date: 1843-c.1867Reference: DGH1/7/3/1Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Books
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The works of that famous physitian Dr. Alexander Read ... / delivered in several lectures at Barbar-Chirurgians-Hall.
Read, Alexander, 1586?-1641Date: 1659- Books
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A treatise of all the muscules of the whole bodie / By Alexander Read, Doctor of Physicke, a fellow of the Colledge of the Physicians of the famous city of London, and a brother of the Worshipfull Company of Barbour-Chirurgeons of the same citie.
Read, Alexander, 1586?-1641Date: 1637- Books
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The chirurgicall lectures of tumors and vlcers : Delivered on Tusedayes appointed for these exercises, and keeping of their courts in the Chirurgeans Hall these three yeeres last past, viz. 1632, 1633, and 1634. By Alexander Read Doctor of Physick, and one of the fellowes of the Physitians College of London.
Read, Alexander, 1586?-1641Date: 1635