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How to rehabilitate the concrete jungle

A huge concrete housing estate from the 1960s, now seen as an ecological mistake, is being drastically redeveloped, compounding the environmental errors. Owen Hatherley posits a more creative solution.

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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.

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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.

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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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  • Wellcome exhibition "Rehabilitation"
  • Wellcome Exhibition "Rehabilitation"
  • Exhibition "Rehabilitation". Case showing artificial limbs.
  • International day of disabled persons in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph by A. Girma for the Arbaminch Rehabilitation Center, 2008.
  • [5 fund raising stickers for the Austrian Red Cross featuring rehabilitation, nursing and transport of wounded soldiers].
  • [5 fund raising stickers for the Austrian Red Cross featuring rehabilitation, nursing and transport of wounded soldiers].
  • [5 fund raising stickers for the Austrian Red Cross featuring rehabilitation, nursing and transport of wounded soldiers].
  • [5 fund raising stickers for the Austrian Red Cross featuring rehabilitation, nursing and transport of wounded soldiers].
  • [5 fund raising stickers for the Austrian Red Cross featuring rehabilitation, nursing and transport of wounded soldiers].
  • Papworth. The Bernhard Baron Hospital for Men and one wing of the South Park Hostel for Rehabilitation where trainee-patients are accomodated in single private rooms.
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