Stories
- Comic
Bald
Don't let your selfish hair mask your cranial beauty
- Photo story
How wigs help children handle hair loss
For young people who lose their hair during cancer treatment, a wig can make them feel normal again. Carmel King photographs some of the processes and people involved with a charity providing beautiful human-hair wigs for kids.
- Article
Diagnosing the past
Historical texts rarely supply enough detail for a definitive diagnosis, so medical historians need to proceed with caution.
- Article
When ‘get well soon’ doesn’t cut it
When loved ones are seriously ill, we can hide behind dishonest platitudes or struggle to find the words. Meet the woman working to fix how we speak to sick people.
Catalogue
- Books
Baldness : a social history / by Kerry Segrave.
Segrave, Kerry, 1944-Date: [1996], ©1996- Ephemera
Baldness is curable by using Eau Lodois / The French Hygienic Society.
French Hygienic Society.Date: [1881?]- Books
Baldness and greyness : their etiology, pathology & treatment / Tom Robinson.
Robinson, Tom, -1916.Date: 1891- Books
- Online
Baldness and greyness : their etiology, pathology & treatment / by Tom Robinson.
Robinson, Tom.Date: [1883]- Books
Baldness and greyness : their etiology, pathology & treatment / by Tom Robinson.
Robinson, Tom, -1916.Date: 1902