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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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Adapting to life as a thalidomide survivor

Growing up as a thalidomide survivor meant coping with all the usual challenges of childhood and adolescence, while having to fit into a world designed for the able-bodied.

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Intertwined with air

Siwakorn Odochao details his people’s way of perceiving trees and humans as intimately connected, and draws on the air as the element that weaves between them. Through the co-dependency of humans and trees to prepare the air for each other, he elaborates on the relationship between air, health and environment.

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Don’t call me a strong Black woman

Her upbringing taught Jaydee Seaforth that she could never show pain or weakness, even when her internal distress was extreme. Find out how she learned to listen to her body.

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  • GANGRENE: Hospital gangrene of an arm stump
  • Two American men: studio portrait: one seated on a tree stump, one standing, leaning on the tree stump. Photograph, ca. 1880.
  • Upper and lower stump forceps. Catalogue, p. 277.
  • Skull, resting on a tree-stump. Coloured chalk drawing, 18--(?).
  • A surgeon dressing the stump of a patient's recently amputated leg. Engraving, 1738.
  • A kingfisher sitting on a stump of a tree. Etching by P. Mazell.
  • A golden eagle sitting on a stump of a tree. Etching by T. Owen.
  • A doctor bandages the stump of a man missing his leg below the knee. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • A young goose girl stands on a fence stump to watch a traveller go by. Chromolithograph.
  • A vulpine opossum sitting on the stump of a tree. Etching by P. Mazell after Latham.
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