Stories
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The mystery of the malignant brain
In 1884 a neurologist successfully used a patient’s symptoms, plus a new kind of map, to locate a brain tumour. Discover how his best-laid plans for treatment worked out.
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How hospital care fails disabled bodies
Hospitals aim to make sick people well. But if the sick person is also disabled, the unbending nature of monolithic hospital systems can easily worsen the situation. Here Jamie Hale writes from painful personal experience.
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The indelible harm caused by conversion therapy
With first-hand evidence from two powerful testimonies, neurologist Jules Montague explores the destructive history of conversion therapy, a punitive treatment designed to ‘cure’ people of homosexuality.
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Pain and the power of touch
As a new physiotherapist, Fiona Murphy quickly learned that her patients’ pain was unpredictable and very personal. But using the right words became the key to helping them.
Catalogue
- Books
Spasm / Lauren Slater.
Slater, Lauren.Date: 2000- Books
Spasm in chronic nerve disease / [Seymour J. Sharkey].
Sharkey, Seymour J.Date: 1886- Books
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Spasm in chronic nerve disease : being the Gulstonian lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians of London, March 1886.
Sharkey, Seymour J.Date: 1886- Archives and manuscripts
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"Migraine Spasm"
Date: 28 February 1983Reference: SA/MAR/260Part of: Migraine Art Competition Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Vascular Spasm
Date: 1950sReference: PP/GWP/C/6/70Part of: Pickering, Sir George White