Stories
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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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Mary Bishop and the surveillant gaze
Writer and artist Rose Ruane explores the paintings of Mary Bishop, created during a 30-year stay in a psychiatric hospital, which speak of constant medical surveillance and censorious self-examination.
- Article
Why we no longer keep our dead at home
Today in the UK we rarely sit with, touch, or perhaps even see our loved ones after they’ve died. Past practices were very different and, Claire Cock-Starkey argues, were more helpful for those grieving.
- Long read
Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
Catalogue
- Books
Critical care in a historical context / Stanley J. Reiser.
Reiser, Stanley JoelDate: 1985- Books
Critical surgical care : selected papers and discussion from the annual Continuation Course in Surgery, "Critical Surgical Care," University of Minnesota, Department of Surgery, Minneapolis, Minnesota / edited by John S. Najarian, John P. Delaney.
Date: [1977], ©1977- Books
Collected publications from Critical care and resuscitation : published on the occasion of the award of the Medal of the Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Faculty, Sydney, 2 June 2007 / Ronald Trubuhovich.
Trubuhovich, Ronald V.Date: 2007- Books
Critical care nursing : a history / Julie Fairman and Joan E. Lynaugh.
Fairman, Julie.Date: [1998], ©1998- Books
Critical care procedures and protocols : a nursing process approach / [edited by] Carol Batten Persons ; with 16 contributors.
Date: [1987], ©1987