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Demanding a diagnosis for invisible pain

After dozens of hospital visits and handfuls of painkillers, a plethora of scans and tests bring diagnosis closer for Jaipreet Virdi.

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A wheelchair in the world

Five years ago, Jan Grue, author of ‘I Live a Life Like Yours’, became a father. A wheelchair user since age eight, Grue explores how parenthood helped him reimagine his relationship with his wheelchair.

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Doctor in the house

A house is not always a home – sometimes it’s impermanent, impersonal. But other aspects of the itinerant life can be the source of a sense of home.

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  • A man bicycling to a lighthouse, representing a charity bicycle ride in aid of the London Lighthouse. Lithograph after Sophie Herxheimer, 1994.
  • People bicycling and walking in a park in the Netherlands; advertising exercise as preventing heart disease. Colour lithograph for the Nederlandse Hartstichting, ca. 2001.
  • A man on a bicycle, and two bicycle saddles seen from behind; representing the health benefits of cycling. Colour lithograph ca. 2000 (?).
  • South Africa: Mrs Bell posing with her bicycle. 1896.
  • A lance-corporal posing with a bicycle. Photographic postcard, 192-.
  • A lance-corporal posing with a bicycle. Photographic postcard, 192-.
  • An apothecary riding a velocipede (bicycle) in the form of a pestle and mortar. Coloured etching, ca. 1819.
  • An old man on a bicycle; advertising an award for care of elderly people in Wales. Colour lithograph, 1964.
  • A bicycle with milk pails, held by an African boy, Zanzibar, Tanzania. Photograph by Dr. Andrew Balfour, ca. 1910 (?).
  • A man on a bicycle with a physician riding pillion; advertising the film "When father fetched the doctor". Colour lithograph, 191-.
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