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Healing hard-working hands

The names we use to describe different hand injuries tell us about history, gender and class. Occupational therapist María Cristina Jiménez explores those injuries, and the changing ways we talk about them.

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Surviving a flesh-eating disease

Nearly dying from a skin infection gave Scott Neill a chance to start again after an early life marked by grief and depression.

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Self-obsessing in the age of selfies

The tiny, joyful spark of a social media ‘like’ can lead to a damaging obsession. Find out how far people will go when their phone addiction gets the upper hand.

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  • Muscles and tendons of mouse forelimb
  • Tendons of the ankle: three figures of a dissection. Lithograph by G.H. Ford after W.A., 1850/1870?.
  • Muscles and tendons of a mouse hindlimb
  • Muscles and tendons of the upper arm: two écorchés. Watercolour, 18--(?).
  • Muscles and tendons of the upper arm: two écorchés. Watercolour, 18--(?).
  • Muscles and tendons of the foot. Lithograph by N.H Jacob, 1831/1854.
  • Muscles and tendons of the legs and feet: écorch ́figure. Watercolour, 18--(?).
  • Muscles and tendons of the arm and hand: écorch.́ Watercolour, 18--(?).
  • Wax(?) model of a dissected hand, showing tendons. Pencil and chalk drawing, 18--(?).
  • Wax(?) model of a dissected foot, showing tendons. Pencil and chalk drawing, 18--(?).
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