Stories
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The building as tool of healing
When we’re ill, it’s not just medical care that helps to treat us. Architects have discovered that the right environment can play an important part too.
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Reversing the psychiatric gaze
Nineteenth-century psychiatrists were keen to categorise their patients’ illnesses reductively – by their physical appearance. But we can see a far more complex picture of mental distress, revealed by those patients able to express their inner worlds in art.
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Exceptional talent and the trouble with IQ tests
Is a high IQ really a mark of genius, or does something else explain the exceptional?
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Printing the body
The 18th century saw multiple technical developments in both printing and medicine. Colourful collaborations ensued – to the benefit of growing ranks of medical students.
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Sewn and pasted cloth or leather bookbinding for book artists requiring no special tools or equipment / Keith A. Smith and Fred A. Jordan.
Smith, Keith A., 1938-Date: [1998], ©1998- Books
[50 coloured plates / engraved by Martin Engelbrecht, from 18th-cent. German works. These are caricatures of different types of tradesmen and their wives, with the costume, tools, and apparatus of their craft. Among them are an apothecary, a spicer, and a spectacle-maker. The plates are similar to those in Larmessin's 'Album des métiers'. The artists include J.J. Stelzer, P.A. Dagmier, and P.F. Engelbrecht. All the plates except the first two have legends in French and German and appear to be from the same work].
Engelbrecht, Martin, 1684-1756.Date: [s.d.]- Books
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An abstract of such acts of Parliament as are now in force, for preventing the exportation of wool and other commodities tools and implements used in the manufacture thereof: And also for preventing the seducing of artists to foreign parts; with a copious index. Extracted from the statutes, and printed by order of the General Chamber of Manufacturers of Great Britain, By William Nicholson secretary.
Great Britain.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]- Pictures
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A young man holding rosary beads in one hand and a tool of his trade in the other. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 581414iPart of: A collection of Indian costumes, types and occupations. Gouache paintings by an Indian artist.- Pictures
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A woman holding a tool to grind (?) which is tied to a rope. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 576708i