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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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Acid and the sexual psychonauts

How LSD fuelled one woman’s journey of sexual self-discovery in the late 1950s.

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A dispatch from the frontiers of man and machine

Harry Parker’s life changed overnight when he stepped on a bomb and lost his legs. He argues that being an amputee doesn’t make him an outlier; we are all hybrid.

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  • A kneeling camel, with a cacolet attached to its back, used to transport injured soldiers during World War I: a western military man is shown standing beside the camel, with desert tents seen pitched in the background. Photograph copied from a print by Dr. Balfour, 1916.
  • Transport of the wounded. The Great Battle: wounded British and German brought in.
  • In a British Hospital-Train. Drawing from official photographs.
  • A labour-saving device. The Automatic Mono-Wheel strecher-carrier.
  • A dramatic episode at Villers-Bretonneux. dressing station ordelies carrying wounded to the cellers.
  • With Indians among the bearers; the loading of the wounded.
  • Ambulance being drawn by a team of camels, 1917.
  • A skirmish on the railway line in Manchuria : a Russian hospital train collecting the wounded (from a sketch by a Russian artist-correspondent).
  • A skirmish on the railway line in Manchuria : a Russian hospital train collecting the wounded (from a sketch by a Russian artist-correspondent).
  • Ambulance des 4e et 6e divisions : d'après M. Durand-Brager / J. Gaildrau.
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