Stories
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The case of the cancerous stomach
Steak and schnitzel were on the menu again after Theodor Billroth successfully excised a woman’s stomach cancer in 1881. Remarkably, today’s surgeons still perform the same procedure, with slight modifications.
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The blight of the ballooning blood vessels
In 1817 an emergency operation on a London porter was hailed a ‘success’ despite the patient’s swift demise. Find out how this case became a landmark in vascular surgery.
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The search for a cure for endometriosis
Discover how a white American doctor’s experimental operations on black female slaves laid the foundations for modern gynaecological surgery.
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Pain, politics and the power of photography
Art historian Giulia Smith explains what she most admires in the work of Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, and how their approach makes illness political.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
KykIo: Breast Cancer - Surgery
Date: 1996-1998Reference: SA/WHL/14/40/21Part of: Women's Health Library: archive- Books
Women talk about breast surgery : from diagnosis to recovery / Amy Gross and Dee Ito.
Gross, AmyDate: 1991- Books
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Cancer of the breast : a further consideration of its chemical extirpation / C.W. Strobell.
Strobell, Charles William.Date: 1913- Archives and manuscripts
Ioss: Breast Surgery - Implants & reduction
Date: 2001Reference: SA/WHL/12/15/16Part of: Women's Health Library: archive- Books
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The operative treatment of cancer of the breast : with an analysis of a series of one hundred consecutive cases / by J. Collins Warren ; (assisted by Walter B. Odiorne and William F. Whitney).
Warren, John Collins, 1842-1927.Date: 1904