Stories
- Comic
Language
Our bodies convey stories through an alphabet of shrugs and shoulder poems. If your shoulders could talk, what poems would they tell?
- Article
Providing care across languages
When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.
- Article
The poetic language of health
When his doctors could only offer phone consultations, James Morland turned to poetry to make sense of the medical terms describing his symptoms and test results.
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The shifting shape of language
Author Jessica Andrews explores how her brother’s deafness has influenced her relationship with words and the world.
Catalogue
- Books
Body language in literature / Barbara Korte.
Korte, Barbara, 1957-Date: [1997], ©1997- Books
Body languages of labor : the politics of women's work and health in early Victorian England / by Marjorie Levine-Clark.
Levine-Clark, Marjorie.Date: 1997- Books
Body talk : rhetoric, technology, reproduction / edited by Mary M. Lay [and others].
Date: [2000], ©2000- Books
Freud's memory : psychoanalysis, mourning and the foreign body / Rob White.
White, Rob, 1970-Date: [2008], ©2008- Videos
The human body. Part 3, First steps.
Date: 1998