Stories
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When depression is worse than physical illness
Chronic physical illnesses can be accompanied by troubling depressive symptoms. Elly Aylwin-Foster urges doctors to treat every aspect of her condition with the same care.
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Sick of being lonely
When his relationship ended, Thom James first withdrew from the world, then began to suffer from illnesses with no apparent physical cause.
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The father of handwashing
Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.
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The healing power of breathing
The healing powers of different breathing methods are said to help with a range of health challenges, from asthma to PTSD. Effie Webb traces their spiritual origins and explores the modern proliferation of breathwork therapies.
Catalogue
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The cost of catastrophic illness / Howard Birnbaum, with contributions by Michael Schwartz.
Birnbaum, Howard.Date: [1978], ©1978- Books
The cost of illness to the city of New Orleans in 1850 / Henry E. Sigerist.
Sigerist, Henry E. (Henry Ernest), 1891-1957.Date: [1944]- Pictures
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A doctor meets an old Scottish convalescent who bemoans the cost of health care. Wood engraving, 1914.
Date: 1914Reference: 15402i- Books
In the kingdom of the sick : a social history of chronic illness in America / Laurie Edwards.
Edwards, Laurie (Laurie Elizabeth)Date: c2013- Books
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The cost of insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland : public, voluntary and private asylum care / Alice Mauger.
Mauger, AliceDate: [2018]