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How hospital care fails disabled bodies

Hospitals aim to make sick people well. But if the sick person is also disabled, the unbending nature of monolithic hospital systems can easily worsen the situation. Here Jamie Hale writes from painful personal experience.

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The island of unclaimed bodies

In New York, those who live and die on the extreme edges of society are buried on an isolated island, often forgotten and unmourned. But recent legal changes aim to reduce stigma and restore their dignity.

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The law of periodicity for menstruation

Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.

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NHS strikes and the decade of discontent

When the social unrest of the 1970s spread to the NHS, dissatisfied staff challenged the status quo for the first time in quarter of a century.

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  • [Bookmark asking for help for the Fench Red Cross to aleviate children dying of a lack of milk, hygiene, baby linen, medical care, air and light. There is an advert for Citiba rayon stockings on the back].
  • [Bookmark asking for help for the Fench Red Cross to aleviate children dying of a lack of milk, hygiene, baby linen, medical care, air and light. There is an advert for Citiba rayon stockings on the back].
  • A pair of grey scissors with figures as handles cutting through a red serpent with the words 'Stop AIDS', an illustration by Keith Haring representing an advertisement for an AIDS-Benefit gala entitled 'It's Time To Say We Care' at the Raimund Theatre, Vienna on 27 June 1989 by the Sam Cole Company. Colour lithograph by Ogilvy and Mather Medical.
  • A doctor visiting a patient who insists on self medication; representing Lord Rosebery's chairmanship of a committee advocating reform in the House of Lords. Wood engraving by Sir E.L. Sambourne, 1907.
  • Two treatises, the one medical, of the gout, and its nature more narrowly search'd into than hitherto; together with a new way of discharging the same / ... By Herman Busschof Senior ... The other partly chirurgical, partly medical; containing some observations and practices relating both to some extraordinary cases of women in travel; and to some other uncommon cases of diseases in both sexes. By Henry van Roonhuyse ... Englished out of Dutch. By a careful hand.
  • World War I: the face of a soldier suffering from the effects of phosgene gas poisoning. Pastel by A.K. Maxwell, ca. 1915.
  • Section of the dorsal (?) rib cage showing multiply fractured ribs. Watercolour in grisaille by S. A. Sewell, ca. 1918.
  • Cardiff Sanatorium. Photograph, ca. 1895.
  • The Medical Mission for Experts on their visit to India: group portrait includes Sir Weldon Dalrymple-Champneys (front row, centre right) and Henry E. Sigerist (back row, second from right). Photograph after a photograph by Kundan Lal, ca. 1950.
  • The Medical Mission for Experts on their visit to India: group portrait includes Sir Weldon Dalrymple-Champneys (front row, centre right) and Henry E. Sigerist (back row, second from right). Photograph after a photograph by Kundan Lal, ca. 1950.
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