Stories
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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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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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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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Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
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Amputation of the entire upper extremity (including the scapula and clavicle), and of the arm at the shoulder-joint : with especial reference to methods of controlling hemorrhage, with a report of one case of the former amputation and four of the latter / by W.W. Keen.
Keen, William W. (William Williams), 1837-1932.Date: 1894- Videos
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Arm amputees in industry.
Date: 1960- Videos
Arm amputees in industry.
Date: 1960- Film
Arm amputees in industry.
Date: 1960- Books
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Richmond Hospital records / by William Stokes.
Stokes, Sir William, 1839-1900.Date: 1870