Stories
- Article
The epilepsy diagnosis
Epilepsy exists between the mind and body, something that Aparna Nair experienced for herself when she was diagnosed as a teenager.
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The anatomy of a brain dissection
Dissecting the brain after death not only helps confirm a diagnosis, but it can also teach us so much more about the symptoms and causes of brain diseases and how to treat them.
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The mystery of the malignant brain
In 1884 a neurologist successfully used a patient’s symptoms, plus a new kind of map, to locate a brain tumour. Discover how his best-laid plans for treatment worked out.
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What is hysteria?
Hysteria has long been associated with fanciful myths, but its history reveals how it has been used to control women’s behaviour and bodies
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
KtwIf: Chlamydia - Diagnosis
Date: 1997-2005Reference: SA/WHL/14/35/23Part of: Women's Health Library: archive- Archives and manuscripts
KwkIez: Screening for Cervical Cancer - Wrong Diagnosis
Date: 1997-1999Reference: SA/WHL/14/38/15Part of: Women's Health Library: archive- Archives and manuscripts
"The Life of Aelius Aristides a Greek 'neurotic' - for comparison with the infirmities of Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Ellis Barker etc"
Date: 1946Reference: PP/FPW/B.226/4/2Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)- Books
Biological diagnosis of brain disorders : the future of the brain sciences proceedings of the 5th International Conference held at the New York Academy of Medicine, October 2-3, 1972 / edited by Samuel Bogoch.
International Conference on the Future of the Brain Sciences 1972 : New York, N.Y.)Date: 1973- Books
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Remarks on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the brain : delivered at a meeting of the Worcestershire and Herefordshire, Bath and Bristol, and Gloucestershire branches / by J. Hughlings Jackson.
Jackson, John Hughlings, 1834-1911.Date: [1888]